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Palace Light: Walls,Courtyards and Shadow atEl Badi Palace

How light, open space and surviving walls bring the palace into focus.

El Badi Palace and natural light

Light that shapes the view

Pause where the palace walls frame the open courtyard. The scale of the space comes into focus through changing patches of sunlight and the surviving outlines of its pavilions.

Look at the contrasts

Look from the open courtyard toward the walls and doorways. Changes in texture and depth emerge as the light moves across the surface. Take photographs from the permitted visitor areas.

Historic wall surfaces at El Badi Palace

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Photography credits

Authentic photographs of El Badi Palace in Marrakech, Morocco. Images are proportionally resized and responsively cropped; no endorsement by the photographers is implied. Adapted CC BY-SA photographs remain available under their respective licences.