Tourist Attraction in Meknes:
Bab Mansour el-Aleuj
Bab Mansour el-Aleuj, also called the door of Renegade, Bab el-Mansour or Bab Mansour, is the door of the city of Meknes in Morocco the most important and most notable. It is opposite the famous Lahdim Square. Bab el-Mansour was completed in 1732 by Moulay Abdallah, son of Sultan Moulay Ismail. Mark the main entrance of the Imperial Palace built for Moulay Ismaïl. The door was designed by a Christian convert to Islam, hence its name: Porta Mansour, the renegade. The marble columns that adorn the protruding side ramparts come from the ruins of Volubilis. The monumental port of Bab-el-Mansour in 1931. Bab Mansour is part of Meknes's protected estate since 1914. In addition to its historic value, Bab Mansour is considered by the inhabitants of the city as a portal linking the past to the present