While wandering the medina, I became obsessed with the doors of Essaouira…
The doors in the medina are mesmerizing. There are so many shades of blue – turquoise, cobalt, royal, sky, cerulean, periwinkle… I can’t stop taking photos of them. They’re so simple and yet each one is so different – so worth taking a moment to look at.
Some are enormously large with a small door in the center and others are only large enough for me and others sharing my tiny height. There are solidly painted doors while others are decorated with designs. Some were more recently painted while others were painted ages ago. The doors might be plain and solid or have planks, panels, brass embellishments, and knockers. They are encased in square archways, rounded archways, and other archways like enlarged key holes. Sometimes the frames are simple and other times they are elaborately tiled or covered with reliefs.
They’re certainly all unique!
I thought the doors were interesting enough to be worth mentioning – what do you think? Have you traveled to other places which also had amazing entry ways?