Ancestral, quake resilient techniques

Photo archives for Agadir Oufella have identified precisely the fortification sections which survived the 1960 earthquake, a testimony to refined wall building techniques which have stood the test of time.

AS part of the 2020-2024 heritage conservation project. the walls of Agadir Oufella were rebuilt as they had been with locat materials and traditional techniques, which, after archaeological and engineering analysis, have proven relatively quake-proof.

On at least two of the Kasbah bastions, complex, better resisting techniques were used, with pyramid sections of rammed earth on a stone base. On certain parts of the wall, alternating beds of stones were used, characteristic of Saadian dry stone fortress building techniques.
Both survived the quake, and today the august citadel bears witness to the refined engineering of centuries past.