The Towers Of Fez

Borj Nord:

Borj Nord « the northern tower » was built in 1582 by the Saadian Sultan Ahmed Al Mansour Addahbi (the golden) on the site of an earlier fortress on a hilltop north of Fez. A century and half later, in the Alaouite period, the elegant lance shaped corner redoubts were added to have its present shape; star - shaped tower.
This tower was built because the city was in need of a strong tower to defend itself at that time against the Turks and the city dwellers from mountain tribes and external assaults.
In 1964, the weapons collection of Dar Batha museum was moved here to form a separate museum of arms, nowadays it has a collection which takes the person through the whole history of armaments with cases of prehistoric stone age tools, Bronze and Iron age weapons, as well as cases of rare medieval European devices and a comprehensive display of 18th, 19th, and 20th century weapons.