Taroudant seems to have been made for the eyes the city was built before the arrival of islam but had its golden period in the xvi century when the saadians made it their capital and called it mohamdia from this time there are still 8 km of earth made walls a proud remainder of the battles of the past walking through one of the monumental five city doors into the medina is almost like walking through time the entangled city streets and alleys may at first seem a disastrous mess but they