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A wall covered in zellīj at the Ben Youssef Madrasa in Marrakesh. Zellij (Arabic: زليج, romanized: zillīj), also spelled zillij or zellige, is a style of mosaic tilework made from individually hand-chiseled tile pieces.
The eastern walls of the city, near Bab Debbagh. Marrakesh was founded in 1070 by Abu Bakr ibn Umar, the early leader of the Almoravids. [1] [2] At first, the city's only major fortification was the Ksar al-Hajjar ("Palace/Fortress of Stone"), a royal citadel built by Abu Bakr to protect the treasury.
A large riad garden (Le Jardin Secret) in Marrakesh, part of a former private mansion rebuilt in the 19th century [9] [10] In Marrakesh the flat landscape and ample space within its city walls meant that houses could have larger courtyards and fewer stories, in contrast with those of Fez. Most older houses had only a ground floor, or at most an ...
In recent years the term "riad" has come to be associated with traditional Moroccan houses (usually restored) that have been converted to hotels and guesthouses. Marrakesh was the early epicenter of riad renovations and the booming tourist industry in the 21st century has fueled an ever-growing number of such examples in and around the old medina.
Panel of the Battle of Aljubarrota by Portuguese artist Jorge Colaço, 1922. Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish:; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) [1] [2] is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework.
Between this mosaic tile frieze and the merlons there is currently an empty horizontal band which used to be filled by an Arabic inscription in cuerda seca tiles, with dark (maybe purple) lettering over a white background. [7] [8] The inscription was in a prominent kufic script and featured the first surah of the Qur'an, Al-Fatiha. This frieze ...