Bab Marrakech
Stone gateway in an eighteenth-century sea wall, opening onto a bustling fish and produce market.
This guide to Bab Marrakech in Casablanca starts with a puzzle: sources can't agree how many gates ever pierced the old sea wall, though everyone agrees on this one. It traces the wall back to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which leveled the trading post of Anfa, and to Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah's decision to rebuild the town as Dar al-Bayda. You'll hear why this gate took its name from merchants riding in from Marrakesh, and how the French decision to build new boulevards outside the medina left the old walls exposed to decades of neglect. Stand under the arch and listen for the market noise carrying in from beyond it.
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