Bab El Khemis
Fortified medina gate with a bent Almoravid passage, once the site of a camel market outside the city walls.
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This guide to Bab El Khemis in Marrakesh follows the gate from its start as Bab Fes, built around 1126 by the Almoravid emir Ali ibn Yusuf, through the Almohad dynasty's defensive redesign that forced anyone entering to stumble through four blind turns in the dark. You'll hear the local legend about where its heavy wooden doors supposedly came from, and how the gate earned the name it carries today from the market that gathered outside it every Thursday. It traces the site from camel traders to the flea market still trading there now.
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