Royal Stables of Moulay Ismail
Moulay Ismail built stables for 12,000 horses adjacent to his granaries at Heri es-Souani — a complex so vast that European visitors in the 17th century refused to believe it was real until they walked its length. The roof collapsed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. What remains is a series of roofless halls stretching to the horizon, grass growing between the stone mangers, pigeons in the broken arches.
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