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El Badi Palace

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Saadian Tombs mausoleum interior with ornate arches and columns in Marrakech, Morocco.
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  • Cover Marrakech’s Kasbah district highlights in one booking: Bahia Palace with audio guide, El Badi Palace entry with postcard, and the Saadian Tombs with audio.

  • Bahia Palace: Timed entry plus a multilingual digital audio guide, so you can explore the courtyards and rooms independently.

  • El Badi Palace: Self-paced entry to the open-air ruins, with a personalized photo postcard mailed worldwide and a digital copy to save.

  • Saadian Tombs: Entry plus a digital audio guide app for a self-guided route through the mausoleums and garden courtyard.

  • Visit all three on the same day. Your tickets are separate per site, so you can set your own pace at each stop.

More details
  • Cover Marrakech’s Kasbah district highlights in one booking: Bahia Palace with audio guide, El Badi Palace entry with postcard, and the Saadian Tombs with audio.

  • Bahia Palace: Timed entry plus a multilingual digital audio guide, so you can explore the courtyards and rooms independently.

  • El Badi Palace: Self-paced entry to the open-air ruins, with a personalized photo postcard mailed worldwide and a digital copy to save.

  • Saadian Tombs: Entry plus a digital audio guide app for a self-guided route through the mausoleums and garden courtyard.

  • Visit all three on the same day. Your tickets are separate per site, so you can set your own pace at each stop.

from Original price€29.90
€27.27

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Slide 1 of 7, El Badi Palace ruins with storks on the walls, Marrakech, Morocco.
El Badi Palace ruins with storks on the walls, Marrakech, Morocco.
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  • Your ticket to El Badi Palace puts you inside a 16th-century royal complex that guests at its opening reportedly called the Eighth Wonder of the World, now a vast ruin of sunken gardens, towering walls, and nesting storks.

  • The main courtyard runs 135 metres by 110 metres, with four sunken gardens and a central reflecting pool stretching 90 metres, giving you a direct sense of the scale Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur built to intimidate foreign dignitaries.

  • Climb to the terraces for views across the ruins to the Koutoubia Mosque minaret, then head underground into the former storage chambers and passageways that run beneath the complex.

  • The site also houses the 12th-century Koutoubia minbar, a cedarwood pulpit made by artisans in Cordoba in 1137 and considered one of the finest surviving examples of Islamic woodwork.

  • Before you leave, choose a photo from your visit and have it made into a personalized postcard, mailed worldwide from the site, with a digital copy sent to you as well.

More details
  • Your ticket to El Badi Palace puts you inside a 16th-century royal complex that guests at its opening reportedly called the Eighth Wonder of the World, now a vast ruin of sunken gardens, towering walls, and nesting storks.

  • The main courtyard runs 135 metres by 110 metres, with four sunken gardens and a central reflecting pool stretching 90 metres, giving you a direct sense of the scale Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur built to intimidate foreign dignitaries.

  • Climb to the terraces for views across the ruins to the Koutoubia Mosque minaret, then head underground into the former storage chambers and passageways that run beneath the complex.

  • The site also houses the 12th-century Koutoubia minbar, a cedarwood pulpit made by artisans in Cordoba in 1137 and considered one of the finest surviving examples of Islamic woodwork.

  • Before you leave, choose a photo from your visit and have it made into a personalized postcard, mailed worldwide from the site, with a digital copy sent to you as well.

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About El Badi Palace

Once the most lavish palace in the Islamic world, El Badi Palace is a hauntingly beautiful 16th-century ruin in the heart of Marrakech's Kasbah. Explore vast sunken courtyards, subterranean dungeons, and rampart terraces with sweeping Atlas Mountain views, all while white storks nest overhead. Book guided tours or entry tickets online for seamless access to one of Morocco's most evocative historical landmarks.


AddressKsibat Nhass, Marrakech 40000, Morocco
Also known asPalais El Badi / The Incomparable Palace
Year opened1593
Founded bySultan Ahmad al-Mansur (Al-Mansur al-Dhahabi)
Visitors per year399998
Expected wait time - Standard0-30 mins (Peak), 0-30 mins (Off Peak)

Did you know?

El Badi means "The Incomparable." It is one of the 99 names of God in Islam. Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur chose this name deliberately to signal that the palace was without equal on earth.

Why visit El Badi Palace?

Rampart Views Over Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains

Climb the palace walls and look out over the Medina's terracotta rooftops toward the snow-capped Atlas Mountains. This is one of the rare free-range vantage points in Marrakech where the scale of the city clicks into focus.

Plan your visit

Main Entrance — Place des Ferblantiers

The primary and only public entrance. Located at the north end of Rue de Berrima, accessed through Place des Ferblantiers (the tinsmithers' square). Ticket counters are located here. The entrance can be easy to miss — look for the crenellated rampart wall and follow signs.

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