Bab al Mersa ("door of the port").
This monumental door build in blocks of stone is an icon for Essaouira.
In 1766, Sultan Sidi Mohammad III engaged Théodore Cornut, a French architect, to design the new city. He worked three years on constructing the Scala of the port.
The harbour entrance, with the "Scala Of The Port", was built by an English renegade by the name of Ahmed el Inglizi ("Ahmed the English"), or Ahmed El Alj ("Ahmed the Renegade").