tapia-walled

Updated: May 6, 2025

It is more suggestive, more intangible, more elusive that is to say, its Eastern medley of a population is so, and its crumbling tapia-walled houses are so than any other Moorish city. More ghosts should stalk the half-deserted yellow roadways of Marrakesh, more mysteries be shrouded within the windowless walls, than a man of Western civilization could conceive.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock