Mosara Garden

The gardens were abandoned and progressively ruined during the Saadian period (16th-17th centuries) and have since disappeared, leaving only traces in a few structures such as Bab Segma.

[2] He enlisted an Andalusian engineer, Ibn al-Hajj from Seville, to help create a vast garden to the north of Fes el-Jdid, along with the water distribution infrastructure required to maintain it.

The garden and its structures came to be popularly called el-Mosara, meaning "the marvel", due to the strong impression they made on visitors.

[4] The site of the garden is now mostly occupied by the large Bab Segma Cemetery (probably dating from the time of Moulay Rashid), inside of which the outline of some of the original basins can still be discerned.

[4][1] The gardens covered 67 hectares to the north of Fes el-Jdid and the Royal Palace; an area comparable in size to the city itself.

Location and layout of Fes el-Jdid and the Mosara Garden in the Marinid period (relative to the old city of Fez)
West wall of the New Mechouar (and outer wall of the Dar al-Makina ), which integrates the remains of the old Marinid aqueduct . The semi-circular outlines of its former arches are faintly visible along the wall. The projecting piers were also likely from the aqueduct's pillars. The octagonal towers of Bab Segma are visible at the end: the dark rectangular opening is presumed to be where the aqueduct passed inside the towers.