Qara, the underground unique prison in Morocco 16/05/2020




The mysterious prison of Qara is the only prison that has no door. Hundreds of people have entered it and no one has been able to leave it. This suspicious prison is located underground in the city of Meknes. It is said to be an unknown area. Ismail "in order to imprison the criminals and opponents of him and his rule ..

It is also said that the geometry of the prison in the form of hallways and mazes is very complex, each hall has several corridors, each corridor leading to another hall, so that if you entered even a little impossible to find the way out again, and very difficult to "There are those who say that it is the size of the city of Meknes, and there are those who say that it extends to tens of kilometers underground and is perhaps the only prison in the world that does not have a door, so how do prisoners enter it? It contains several holes in the ceiling, where prisoners are thrown from that hole and also food from the same hole , If imprisonment is a life sentence.

There is a novel that says that Mullah Ismail made the prison one director somewhere, which he finds is free, but unfortunately no one was found, there are those who wonder why this prison was not explored to reflect all his secrets? .. The reason is simply that there is no one has the courage to enter, and there is a widespread belief that the prison is haunted by the genies and sparrows, and that he is cursed in a way, many adventurers tried to explore and the result was that the income never returned ..

One of the attempts was made by a group of French explorers in the 1990s, when the team prepared all the necessary tools and modern equipment to probe the walls of the prison of Gara. The result was tragic. The team disappeared and their fate remains unknown to this day. The prison was sealed with cement, leaving only one room for tourists.

Kara prison or Qara prison is a historical landmark, built in the 18th century by the era of Moulay Ismail inside the Kasbah of Ismailia in Meknes, designed in the form of a semi-rectangular, divided into three large halls in each of us a group of arches and huge supports. It is the largest prison in Morocco.

AGADIR POGODA