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Dar
Batḥa
(Arabic:
دار
البطحاء,
pronounced
Bat-ḥaa),
or
Qasr
al-Batḥa
(Arabic:
قصر
البطحاء),
is
a
former
royal
palace
in
the
city
of
Fez,
Morocco.
The
palace
was
commissioned
by
the
Alawite
Sultan
Hassan
I
in
the
late
19th
century
and
completed
under
his
successor
Abdelaziz.
It
was
transformed
into
a
museum
of
historical
arts
and
crafts
in
1915,
with
a
collection
that
today
includes
more
than
6,500
objects.
The
palace
is
located
near
Bab
Bou
Jeloud,
on
the
western
edge
of
Fez
el-Bali,
the
city's
old
medina
district,
and
near
Fez
el-Jdid,
the
new
medina
district.
Another
historic
palace,
Dar
al-Beida
(Arabic:
الدار
البيضاء),
was
originally
part
of
the
same
complex
but
was
separated
for
other
official
uses
in
the
twentieth
century
and
remains
today
an
official
residence,
inaccessible
to
the
public.
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