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Bahia Palace

Palaces and Aristocratic Residences

Bahia Palace, in Marrakech, was built in the late nineteenth century for Si Moussa, grand vizier of the Alaouite sultanate, and later expanded by his son Bou Ahmed; its name is generally translated as brilliance or the beautiful. The palace exemplifies Moroccan and Islamic architectural tradition, organized around a series of courtyards, gardens and riads, with rooms decorated in carved cedar wood, ornamental stucco and zellij tilework. It was never a royal residence in the strict sense, having been built for a powerful court official at the height of his personal influence, and today is open to visitors as a heritage site.

Facts
Building Type
Palace 1
Location
Marrakesh, Morocco 1
Completed Year
1866 2
Completed Year
1900 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Palace 1
Connections

Has Building Type

Palace, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Moorish Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Bahia Palace - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Morocco, located there.
Sources
1. Bahia Palace - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, building_type
    Palace
  • Infobox, location
    Marrakesh, Morocco
  • Infobox, completion_date
    1900
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Bahia Palace, in Marrakech, was built in the late nineteenth century for Si Moussa, grand vizier of the Alaouite sultanate, and later expanded by his son Bou Ahmed; its name is generally translated as brilliance or the beautiful. The palace exemplifies Moroccan and Islamic architectural tradition, organized around a series of courtyards, gardens and riads, with rooms decorated in carved cedar wood, ornamental stucco and zellij tilework. It was never a royal residence in the strict sense, having been built for a powerful court official at the height of his personal influence, and today is open to visitors as a heritage site.
  • In Style: Moorish Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: Moorish (Alawi)
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2. Wikidata: Bahia Palace
  • Wikidata Q2465115, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q2465115, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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