Tinmel

Tinmel also watched the Tizi n'Test pass, the road over the High Atlas between Marrakesh and the Sous, and the caliphs who came after Ibn Tumart were buried near his tomb. When the Marinids wrested Morocco from the dynasty, the valley became its last refuge. The Almohads of Marrakesh fell back on Tinmel and made their final stand here, until their last leaders were defeated and captured in 1275, and the empire that had set out from these mountains a century and a half earlier ended where it began.