EL BAADIA PALACE

El Badia  Palace was commissioned by the Saadian Ahmed el Mansour-Dhahabi in commemoration of his glory year 986 AH (1578) on the Portuguese army, celebrated victory in the Western world known as the Battle Three Kings.
At his death in 1603, the work was not yet complete. The most precious materials were purchased from China, India .... Built in the northeastern part of the kasbah Almohad. El Badi Palace was intended to feasts and solemn hearings during which the sovereign was to show his pomp as before the elite of the kingdom to foreign embassies.

The palace complex consists of a large courtyard in the shape of a rectangle of 135 m by 110 m, among which was constructed a pool of 90 m by 20 m at the center of which stood a monumental fountain with two superimposed basins and topped by a fountain. On both sides of this central basin, two depressions are covered with trees and flowers arranged in squares separated by walkways paved zelliges. The angles of the palace were occupied by rectangular pools 30 m by 10 m.

Around the immense Badi Palace Yard organized the impressive ruins of old houses. On both sides of the great central basin, rose two pavilions facing each other: one, known as the Crystal Pavilion has been the subject of excavations which have revealed the plan while the second shell, called Pavilion hearings remain as high walls. Both, plan almost identical, were covered by a dome with twelve columns. The floor of both houses was covered with zelliges can observe a few specimens in the Hall of hearings. Two other flags, size larger, occupy the middle of the north and south sides. Unlike the first two, the provision of Green Pavilion and the Pavilion of the heliotrope, slightly recessed, allowing the development of two open galleries along the walls supported by two sets