Aghmat

Aghmat is an archaeological site hidden with the foot of the High Moroccan Atlas, to 30 km of Marrakech. This site is known today under the name of Joumâa d' Aghmat , particularly famous for the mausoleum of Al Moutamid Ibn Abbad.

This city was used as a basis for the Almoravides in their projection towards the areas of north, before they found the Médina Marrakech in 1062. Under the reign of Youssef Ibn Tachfin, Aghmat was the place of exile of the deposed kings of Spain whose Poète Al Moutamid Ibn Abbad celebrates it, king of Seville.

Today, there remains only part of the wall, the Hammam and the remainders of some houses, and the traces of a built cob and stone rampart extending on a hundred from meters.

On the site of Aghmat, was built in 1970 the Mausolée of Al Mutamid Ibn Abbad where rest Al Mutamid, his wife Iîtimad Rmiqia like her son. The cupola is decorated with worms composed by the prince-poet.

A work of restoration of the place is in hand.

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