The City Gates of Taroudant

Fatimzahra Bayda tells us of the Gates    

 The ramparts of Taroudant were built in the era of Mohamed Cheikh Saadi to protect the city against the attacks of the portuguese who settled in Agadir and other tribes that rebelled against him. He also constructed the gates which were and are still  the main entrances and allow people to have access to the centre of the city. In the past at night, they were closed and guarded.

   There are five gates and they are as follows :



Bab Zargane



You may have noticed I'm a gate short. I could not copy Fatimzarah's pictures. I had sent beloved round to take substitutes but can only find these. We are not always sure which to photograph because new "gates" have been punched through for roads.Fatimzarah lists

                                            Bab Oulad Bounouna
                                            Bab Le Kasbah
                                            Bab Zargane
                                            Bab Taghout        and
                                            Bab Lackmiss which I would normally write as Bab El Khemis.
I have earlier pictures I intended to use instead of Fatimzarah's but Google has changed the blogger programme so I cannot upload from the computer but have to put the pictures into a Picasso web album fisrt. Bah boo hiss Google. Some of us don't intuit new programmes we just want to stay with what we are used to.