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Saadian Tombs in photographs

What the site actually looks like, room by room: the Chamber of the Twelve Columns and its gilded ceiling, the zellige, the garden tombs outside, and the narrow passage you come in through.

Photographs of the Saadian Tombs, Marrakech. Open one to see it larger.

The full Chamber of the Twelve Columns, symmetrical, its marble columns rising to a carved cedar ceiling — The Chamber of the Twelve Columns

The gilded cedar ceiling above the Chamber of the Twelve Columns, its centre worked in gold — The gilded cedar ceiling

Marble tombstones on a zellige floor between the Carrara columns of the Chamber of the Twelve Columns — Tombs between the Carrara columns

Daylight falling from the lantern onto the carved plaster and marble columns of the burial chamber — Daylight on the carved plaster

The Chamber of the Twelve Columns lit from the floor, marble tombs centred beneath the gilded ceiling — The Twelve Columns, lit from below

The burial chamber in full symmetry: marble tombs on a zellige floor between columns, beneath arched windows — The burial chamber in symmetry

Light from the lantern falling on three marble tombs between the columns of the main chamber — Three tombs beneath the lantern

Carrara marble columns with carved stucco capitals, against walls of fine plasterwork and zellige — Carrara marble columns

A carved cedar niche under a muqarnas arch, framed by zellige columns, with a painted ceramic vase on the wooden screen — A cedar niche under a muqarnas arch

The carved mihrab wall and zellige panels of the prayer hall, with marble grave slabs on the floor — The mihrab wall of the prayer hall

The Chamber of the Three Niches, its columns and arches above a floor of patterned zellige — The Chamber of the Three Niches

The columned chamber looking through an open doorway to a marble fountain in the courtyard beyond — Through the chamber to the fountain

A carved marble tomb on an intricate zellige floor, lit low, with the inscribed frieze above — A marble tomb on zellige

A carved stucco portico on marble columns above a zellige dado, seen from the courtyard — The stucco portico in the courtyard

The carved cedar eaves and stucco portal of the mausoleum, seen from below against a blue sky — The cedar eaves of the mausoleum

The narrow single-file entrance passage beside the Kasbah Mosque, tiled in zellige, with visitors filing through — The entrance passage

The garden of the Saadian Tombs with palms, pisé walls and the green-tiled mausoleum roofs — The garden and its green-tiled roofs

The walled garden of tombs seen from above, its tiled grave slabs laid out among visitors and palms — The garden of tombs from above

Tiled grave slabs on grass beneath fig trees, against the weathered pisé wall of the enclosure — Graves beneath the fig trees

Tiled graves on grass against the old brick and pisé wall, beside the carved portico — Graves by the enclosure wall

White roses in the garden beds while visitors queue along the pisé wall in late afternoon light — Roses and the afternoon queue

A guide in a djellaba explaining the site to visitors in the garden of tombs on a wet day — A guided visit on a rainy day

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