Bab Mansou Laalaj

The door most spacious and most famous of Meknès.ca outside is richly décorée.Son plan is double elbow and probably designed in the traditional type of Moroccan monumental gate.   Bab Almansur reached a total height of 18m, half of which is occuppée by his opening arc. This broken and slightly exceeded, is lined with a lobed arch, decorated with tracery in diamonds. The spandrels are filled with floral decoration executed in the excised ceramic enamel on dark background. The rectangular frame is formed of a decoration similar to that of the arch. Fallout symmetrically finish on three unequal arches, inlaid same as the interlacing arch and inlaid ceramic frame Blue-green cast. The central part of the door is flanked by two massive protruding treated decorative element. Each of these two massive square map opens at its base by two perpendicular bays semicircular horseshoe arch resting on heavy columns whose capitals are of limestone and marble was.