the glaoui palace by call_me_rhia
Just beside the casbah Taourirt there is a very interesting and beautiful building, which used to be the favourite residence of the Glaoui, ithe pasha of Marrakech. For a small fee it is possible to visit this palace - which - although deprived of furniture - is really worth seeing for its decorations.The rooms and apartments that you will visit have carved cedar ceilings, and the walls are adorned with stuccos painted with natural colours_ saffron, indigo, egg yolk, peppermint). In the counrtyard there is a large cannon, which had been a gift by the king Moulay Hassan.