Kasbah Ait Benhaddou

By Abdel Charaf - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41387245
By Abdel Charaf – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41387245

With its souvenir shops, Aït Benhaddou is one of the most spectacular sights of the Atlas, piled upon a low hillock above a shallow, reed-strewn river. Its buildings are among the most elaborately decorated and best preserved in the south; they are towered and crenellated, and with high, sheer walls of dark red pisé, they must have been near impregnable in this remote, hillside site.

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