Moroccan riad been bought by foreigners. This foreign interest has brought new challenges but the investment has helped with the restoration of the UNESCO site and has helped revive many of the handcrafts and artisan trades that were gradually being lost before this trend. Many of the restored riads in the districts of Mouassine and Lakssour offer the finest examples of restoration as historically these areas contained many of the grand palaces from Marrakech's Saadian period. Moroccan riad A riad () is a type of traditional Moroccan house or palace with an interior garden or courtyard. The word riad originates from the
Sumbanese traditional house rice before passing it through a special aperture to a priest who formally offers the food to marapu in the right front part of the house. The back-left post is called "the post that feeds chickens and pigs" ("kambaniru matungu uhu wei, pani manu"), linking the area with the care of animals sacrificed to marapu. Sumbanese traditional house The Sumbanese traditional house (Sumbanese "uma mbatangu", "peaked house") refers to the traditional vernacular house of the Sumba people from the island of Sumba, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Sumbanese house is characterized with its high-pitched central peak in its roof and strong