3-Hour Marrakech City Walking Tour

The Cashbah District

Highlights

Marrakech

cultural, historical, sightseeing

Group Tour

3 Hours

Easy

English, French

Description

Take this three-hour walking tour in Marrakech and explore the rich history of the city. Visit the 12th Century gate Bab Agnaou, the Saadian tombs (a 16th-Century mausoleum), the Jewish quarter, the Mellah, and the 19th-Century Bahia Palace.

Itinerary

Marrakech tour
- Tag along with the Marrakech tour guide, and start the tour from Bab Agnaou-the 12th CE pretty gate of Marrakech.
- Walk to the Saadian Tombs. This mausoleum houses three connected rooms that are distinguished by their unique ornamentation-white marble columns, ornate ceilings panels of carved plaster, and sculpted cedar embellished with gold.
- Continue walking to the Jewish quarter- the Mellah, to see the stores and the workshops of the best artisans of the city.
- Finish the morning tour by the Bahia Palace which was constructed during the last quarter of the 19th CE, as a residence for Ba Ahmed who was the Grand Vizier of the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Hassan.