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Mekness
Tanger gate
entrance
Meat MarketPlace El Hedim
In order to get from the Bab Mansour to the museum Dar Jamai, you have to cross the "Place El Hedim" ("Square of Destruction"). Legend has it that the name originated in Sultan Moulay Ismail's building activities. He had torn down a number of houses that originally were part of the medina in order to form a large, presentable forecourt for the entrance to the Ville Impériale. It is said that initially the construction waste was piled on the premisses of the Place.
Nowadays it is a center for merchants and street hawkers, who offer bits and pieces for the tourists, and still not in its best condition.
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