The City Walls
Marrakesh’s city walls run for some 19km (12 miles) round the Medina.
One of the most popular ways to tour the city wall and its various gates is by calèche. The circuit takes about two hours, and should cost around 350dh, depending on your bargaining skills. You could also do it on foot (around four hours, take water) or by bicycle.
There is no public access onto the top of the wall.
Facts and stats
Originally built under the Almoravid ruler Ali ibn Yusuf in 1126–7, the walls were expanded under the Almohads when they took over in 1147. The walls were extended north and south in the eighteenth century, and south around the Agdal Gardens in the 1830s.
Text © Daniel Jacobs
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