Tinmel
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Tinmel (also Tin Mal) is a small moutainious village High Atlas in N'ffis valley at 100 km of Marrakech. The Almohad conquerors left this village to conduct their military campaigns against the Almoravids.
With the seizure of Marrakech in 1147, Tinmel becomes the spiritual capital and the artistic centre of the Almohad empire. After the decline of the dynasty, it became again a simple village of the High Atlas.
Today, there remain only some ruins of the wall which surrounded the city and those of the large mosque. Tinmel occupies however a paramount place in the history of Morocco and the Maghreb.
The village contains most of the Almohad rulers' tombs.
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