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Saadian Tombs and Bahia Palace

Saadian Tombs and Bahia Palace

Marrakech · Morocco

9 stops7.4 km1 h 29 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow a walk through Marrakech’s royal and architectural heritage, beginning with the Saadian Tombs and continuing to El Badi Palace and Bahia Palace. Along the way, you will see a madrasa, gardens, and historic gates that help frame the tombs and palace within the city’s fortified landscape. The route is worth taking for its contrasts between secluded funerary spaces, grand palace remains, decorated interiors, and monumental entrances.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 9. The rest are in the app.

  1. Saadian Tombs

    Saadian Tombs

    A royal necropolis built in stages, where Saadian power survives in marble and uncertainty.

  2. El Badi Palace

    El Badi Palace

    A Saadian palace built to turn victory, trade, and wealth into architecture.

  3. Bahia Palace

    Bahia Palace

    A palace built piece by piece, where power, marriage, and royal politics shaped every courtyard.

  4. 3 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Madrasa Ben Youssef

    Madrasa Ben Youssef

    A Saadian school where scholarship, housing, and astonishingly precise decoration meet.

  6. Koutoubia Gardens

    Koutoubia Gardens

    Koutoubia Gardens is a Muslim place of worship and garden in Marrakech.

  7. Bab Agnaou

    Bab Agnaou

    An Almohad royal gate whose surviving stonework hides a much larger entrance behind it.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 3 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

3 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 9 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

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  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.