Bab Fettouh:
Bab Fettouh was first called Bab Al-Qibla“the cynosure gate” as it has been the gate of a city that has attracted a lot of people from sub-Saharian Africa, the Maghreb and from all over the world. Then it was named as Bab Fettouh- its present name- thanks to a Zenet prince called Foutouh who was the eldest son of the prince Ibn Ateya Senhaji and who in the 11th century ruled Adouat El Andalus, rebuilt the gate and gave it his name, whereas his brother Agissa got control of Adouat El Qarawiyine. In the era of Sultan Moulay Slimane (1792-1822) it was rebuilt and expanded by his principal architect the great Maalam (master mason) Al – Sudani, to take its present shape; an undornamented huge gate that has a central arch flanked by two symmetrical smaller arches.
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