Entrance of the audience pavillion at the Badi palace

The Badi palace did consist of some 360 rooms, a courtyard of 135m by 110m and a pool of 90m by 20m. It was heavily decorated with Italian marbles and Sudanese gold. It also contains a small, underground, jail with about four cells where the prisoners of the king were put. Only ruins are left of the Badi palace, after Moulay Ismail destroyed most of it in the 17th century. He took its decorations and fittings to Meknes.