Tamdaght

Tamdaght is a kasbah in the lower Ounila Valley, roughly four kilometres upstream of Aït Ben Haddou. The complex consists of a fortified residence with high pisé curtain walls, four corner towers in the canonical southern Moroccan style, an enclosed garden, and a cluster of dependent earthen houses around the kasbah base.

The principal kasbah is associated with the Glaoui family, who used it as a secondary residence and administrative outpost on the route between Telouet and Ouarzazate. The construction history is layered: an earlier seventeenth-century core was extended in successive nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century campaigns under Glaoua patronage, with the highest-status decorated rooms dating to the late nineteenth century.

Tamdaght is partially restored — sections of the southern range have been stabilised and re-roofed under private and small-scale state investment, while the eastern walls and several of the dependent houses remain in advanced decay. The site receives a fraction of the visitor traffic of Aït Ben Haddou and has not been included in the UNESCO inscription, although it forms part of the same architectural and historical landscape.