Walls of rammed earth
The kasbah’s walls and most of its towers are built of rammed earth, or pisé: earth packed hard between wooden boards. Sources count between eleven and thirteen towers around the enclosure.
The main tower
The tallest tower stands on the west side. Built of rubble stone with cut-stone corners, it rises over three storeys: a ground-floor room under brick domes, two rooms above it and a crenellated terrace at the top.
Gates and cisterns
The kasbah first had two entrances, one facing the square and the markets and another near the Great Mosque. Both were later closed or put to other uses, and visitors now enter through an opening made in the 1930s. Old cisterns found on the site probably date from its first years as a residence.
