Maruhubi Palace Ruins

Stone columns, bath houses and lily-covered reservoirs from Sultan Barghash’s 1880s palace.

Built between 1880 and 1882 by Sultan Barghash to house his wife and up to one hundred concubines, the palace burned down in 1899. What remains are the large stone columns that once supported a wooden balcony, the Persian-style bathhouse with separate bathrooms, shade trees, lawns and old water reservoirs now overgrown with water lilies and mango trees imported from India.