The Bahia Palace is a 19th century building, consisting of rooms decorated with stunning stuccos, paintings and mosaics and a set of gardens located in Marrakesh. The Bahia Palace was intended to be the greatest palace of its time. The name of the Bahia Palace means in Arabic “brilliance”. As in other buildings of the period in other countries, it was intended to capture the essence of the Islamic and Moroccan style. There is a 2-acre (8,000 m²) garden with rooms opening onto courtyards in the Bahia Palace.

The Bahia Palace was set up at the end of the 19th century by Si Moussa, grand vizir of the sultan, for his personal use, the  Bahia Palace would bear the name of one of his wives. Here, the harem, which includes a vast court decorated with a central basin and surrounded by rooms intended for the concubines. As the black slave Abu Ahmed rose to power and wealth towards the end of the 19th century, he had the Bahia palace built by bringing in craftsmen from Fez.