Stories

Look a little closer.

Read through the light, the architecture and the city. Each is a different way to begin a visit.

Historic surfaces and palace spaces at El Badi Palace
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Ways into the story

  1. Light and the palace

    Begin with the Journal’s visual introduction to sunlight, open spaces and surviving palace walls.

  2. History and place

    Follow the heritage introduction into the palace’s construction and its Saadian context.

  3. A city in detail

    Explore the wider city and its cultural context through the Building Marrakech guide.

Stories with a clear point of view

A useful story gives you something specific to notice: a material, a person, a change over time or a question worth carrying into a visit. Context matters as much as a striking image.

This hub brings the site's editorial pages together. It does not present commissioned interviews, community partnerships or independent field reporting that have not taken place. When new reporting is added, its contributors, dates and image credits should travel with it.

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.