Heri es-Souani
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Heri es-Souani is a monumental granary and stable complex built at Meknes by Sultan Moulay Ismail around the turn of the eighteenth century, part of his vast imperial city. Long vaulted halls with massive walls and small openings kept grain cool, while an adjoining structure once stabled thousands of horses. A large adjacent basin, the Agdal, stored water for irrigation and the palace. Though partly ruined, the surviving arcades convey the extraordinary scale of Moulay Ismail's ambitions among imperial Morocco's finest monuments.
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