Morocco again47 Ksar Ait Benhaddou
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The Atlas range provides Morocco’s spine. The mountains separate the relatively fertile coastal half Morocco from the Sahara desert. And crossing the Atlas is a journey from olive groves and orange trees to outback on a road completed in 1936 by the Foreign Legion. Ait Benhaddou is essentially a fortified city built into the mountainside, and is widely recognised as the most impressive Kasbah in MoroccoAït Benhaddou is a ksar (fortified village in Arabic), along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in present-day Morocco. Inside the walls of the ksar are half a dozen (Kasbahs) or merchants houses and other individual dwellings, and it is a great example of earthen clay architecture, which is also used in Moroccan architecture.Aït Benhaddou has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 and several films have been shot there
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The ksar, a group of earthen buildings surrounded by high walls, is a traditional pre-Saharan habitat. The houses crowd together within the defensive walls, which are reinforced by corner towers. Ait-Ben-Haddou, in Ouarzazate province, is a striking example of the architecture of southern Morocco
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Located in the foothills on the southern slopes of the High Atlas in the Province of Ouarzazate, the site of Ait-Ben-Haddou is the most famous ksar in the Ounila Valley
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L’Oasis d’Or
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What L'Oasis D'Or does have going for it is a great view of Ait Ben Haddou from across the river
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Inside the defensive walls which are reinforced by angle towers and pierced with a baffle gate, houses crowd together - some modest, others resembling small urban castles with their high angle towers and upper sections decorated with motifs in clay brick - but there are also buildings and community areas
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Today the Ksar stands abandoned, as its inhabitants have moved to the modern village on the opposite side of the river, which is closer to the modern road. A program of restoration work is currently under way to encourage the population of the village, which is at present inhabited by just five families
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The community areas of the ksar include a mosque, a public square, grain threshing areas outside the ramparts, a fortification and a loft at the top of the village, an caravanserai, two cemeteries (Muslim and Jewish) and the Sanctuary of the Saint Sidi Ali or Amer. The Ksar of Ait- Ben-Haddou is a perfect synthesis of earthen architecture of the pre-Saharan regions of Morocco
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Complexe turistique La Kasbah Ait Ben Haddou
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