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Bab El Oqla, Tétouan — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Bab El Oqla is a Tétouan district whose register holds the Tetouan Modern Art Center and the old houses Dar Al Mandri and Dar Sellam El Haj.
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Where to stay in Bab El Oqla
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
The Tetouan Modern Art Center is the reason to fix a room in Bab El Oqla rather than in another part of Tétouan, and Dar Al Mandri and Funduq Lebbadi fall on the same short circuit of streets. Guest rooms are few. Whoever wants a wider choice books in Tétouan itself and comes across for the Musée d'ethnographie à Tétouan and for Dar Sellam El Haj.
Few places to stay in Bab El Oqla — most visitors book in Tétouan nearby.
About Bab El Oqla
What are the main landmarks in Bab El Oqla?
Houses outnumber galleries here. Dar Al Mandri, Dar Sellam El Haj and Funduq Lebbadi come to the register as buildings rather than as institutions, while the Tetouan Modern Art Center and the Musée d'ethnographie à Tétouan are the two entries set up to take a ticketed visitor. Five entries, no more.
Bab El Oqla is read through its doorways rather than through one monument.
What is the history of Bab El Oqla?
No founding year attaches. Bab El Oqla enters the record as one of the Tétouan districts, and what stands for its history is the fabric named on the sheet: Dar Al Mandri, Dar Sellam El Haj and Funduq Lebbadi, buildings the register names without dating them. Tétouan supplies the chronology. Bab Saida, another district on the same city roll, is documented in the same manner.
Where is Bab El Oqla?
Tétouan divides into districts, and Bab El Oqla is the one carrying Funduq Lebbadi, with Bab Saida on the same city roll.
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What is the best area to stay in Bab El Oqla?
Tétouan: a wider room choice with the Tetouan Modern Art Center a walk off.
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Updated August 2026