mercredi 11 juillet 2007



Bab Semmarine:

The gate was called first Uyune Sanhaja “the gate of Sanhaja springs” which was an important Moroccan Berber tribe, and then it was named Bab Semmarine due to two reasons: first, because it was the place of guild artisans who shore horses, mules…etc; second, because of the soldiers who used to guard the gateway at night.
Bab Semmarin, which is placed between two big towers, represents the main access to Fez-jdid if a person comes from Boukhsissat or the Mellah.nowadays, it houses a police station in one side, and in the other side it houses a market that used to be the storage silos of the Merinid city.
The architecture of this gate is original; “…the gate had an indirect entrance adorned with domes. Its outer façade presents a solid semicircular arch, reinforced by a decorative multi-foiled arch. A band of intertwing geometrical shapes surrounded the whole gate…” the explanatory sign of Bab Semmarine.

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