Bahia Palace

قصر الباهية

A 19th-century vizier's mansion of painted ceilings

⚠ Avoid the morning group rush

Hours

Daily 09:00–17:00, last entry around 16:30

Tickets

Foreign adults 100 MAD, ages 7–13 50 MAD, bought on site

Address

Entrance at the end of Rue Riad Zitoun el Jedid

'Bahia' means 'brilliance' in Arabic. A grand vizier extended this house in stages in the late 1800s, so rooms and courtyards run into each other like a maze. The show is overhead: carved and painted cedar ceilings, zellige tiles up the lower walls, plaster carved like lace. There's almost no furniture, just empty rooms covered in pattern. The big marble courtyard is blinding at midday, so bring sunglasses.