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Bab el Khemis

Gateway to the Thursday market - باب الخميس

With its round entrance and battlement-like merlons, Bab el Khemis is the Medina's northernmost gateway. Based on an original Almoravid gate, it was refurbished in 1803–4, but must still be reasonably similar to how it was in the eleventh century.

Souk el Khemis

The gate is called Bab el Khemis (“Thursday Gate”) because it leads out to a huge flea market, called the Souk el Khemis. whose market day, in theory, is Thursday. In fact it now operates every day except Friday, but Thursday, and to a lesser extent Sunday, are its biggest days.

The Souk el Khemis was originally a market for camels and donkeys, but nowadays it sells a bit of everything, from mobile phone accessories to food, clothes, furniture and bric-a-brac.

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The City Walls

The City Walls & Around

Images by Daniel Jacobs, Mary Madigan, Miguel Discart