Doors and Ceilings of Marakech

I noticed yesterday that I have been taking many pictures of doors and ceilings. I have teken too many pictures of them to be interesting unless they are part of a door and window study, so here it is, a sample of the doors and ceilings I saw in one day in Marakech. The first is the door to our room in the riad. I feel like I am entering a munchkin house every time I go in because of the way the small door opens in the bigger door. The doorway behind the rectangular door is spire shaped.


Later we were walking down a random street and came across this door, framed by Michele and Keisha. I want to emphasize that this is a random door on the street, so, you can only immagine what the doors are like in palaces and mosques.


In the afternoon we visited the Saadian Tombs, where many generations of the Saadian family, the people to drove the Portuguese out of Morocco, are burried. This picture is the ceiling in one of the rooms, the room had about a dowen ceiling pannels, each with a unique design.


The best doors and celings were at the El Badi Palace. A complex of apartments built around open courtyards with gardens of fruit trees all around.

The first two pitcures are a ceiling and door around the first courtyard.





The last two pictures are a door and a ceiling around the second courtyard. Notice the door within a door going on here.



This last ceiling is my favorite. It reminds me of a flying carpet.