BAHIA Place comprises two large gardens, first is carried out by Si Moussa and the second about 1880 by his son Ba Hmad a vizier, minister who ensured the regency of the sovereigns Moulay Hassan and Abdelaziz. He was the true Master of Morocco between 1894 and 1900. The place is a head of Moroccan work of art.
The building, almost only in ground floor with only one apartment with the first stages the Menzeh, extends thus on eight hectares.
BAHIA Place comprises the following elements:
Small Riyadh : an interior garden on which rooms and niches open. It is there that Ba Hmad received people of the government in the large room of the council to the painted and openwork ceiling. It is there also that were arranged, later, the offices of the Lyautey marshal.
Small court : Four rooms opening on an in the open air court entirely tiled marble and zellidj (ceramics squares) constituted the private apartments of Ba Hmad; they were transformed at the time of Lyautey into room of the officers.
Large marble court known as " Main courtyard " : It is an immense court (50 m * 30 m) in the open air, paved marble and of zellidj surrounded by a gallery to the columns out of cut out wooden, on which opens an imposing room of reception known as Salle of council, largest of the place (20 m * 8 m) and whose painted ceiling is of a great beauty.
Large Riyadh : It is the oldest part of the palate that made build the father of Ba Hmad, Si Moussa, completed in 1866-1867 and refitted thereafter. This Riyadh is distinguished, in addition to the garden, by its two rooms and its two niches with refined decoration.
The private apartment : Two rooms and two niches give on a covered space of a painted ceiling, lit by plasterboards carved and finely openwork.