Niger
Palais du Zarmakoye de Dosso
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Official Information
- Full Name
 - Palais du Zarmakoye de Dosso (ID: 5041)
 
- Country
 - Niger
 
- Status
 - 
        On tentative list 2006
        
Site history
History of Palais du Zarmakoye de Dosso
- 2006: Added to Tentative List
 - Added to tentative list
 
 
- Type
 - Cultural
 
- Criteria
 
Links
- UNESCO
 - whc.unesco.org
 
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UNESCO.org
- whc.unesco.org — whc.unesco.org
 
Community Information
- Community Category
 - Secular structure: Palace
 
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  The palace is located in the center of Dosso, near the main road Zinder-Niamey, which is also the most important road for the whole country. It is quite easy to find although the photos available in the Internet may be misleading – they show different palace in Maradi, not the one in Dosso. Sultan’s palaces may be found in almost all bigger cities in Niger, but the one in Dosso stands out a bit and, out of around five I saw during my trip, is the one I liked the most. It is very nicely painted, though its architecture from the outside is typical. We tried to enter but could reach only the first room – which had something like a wooden dome. The sultan was not home and the guardian perhaps saw “visitors” for the first time – he was literally scared that somebody wants to enter the palace in the absence of sultan. Overall the place does not deserve WHS status, but as a serial nomination of „Sultans' palaces in Western Africa” might be worth considering.
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