Previously called Mogador by the Portuguese, Essaouira is a port city with a fortified medina on the Atlantic Ocean. The region of Essaouira was occupied since Antiquity in a discontinuous way by the Phoenicians, by the Berbers at the time […]
Ouzoud waterfalls are the most beautiful and highest waterfalls in Morocco. Often dominated by a rainbow, they offer visitors a spectacular view from a height of about 110m on three levels. Located 150 km northeast of Marrakech on the picturesque site […]
Agafay desert is located about thirty kilometres away from the red city of Marrakech, on the first heights of the High Atlas mountains. It extends over several hundred hectares.You can admire breathtaking landscapes in a rocky and hilly environment, composed […]
The Ourika valley is a valley in the Moroccan High Atlas located 40 km away from Marrakech. It is mainly populated by Berbers. It is still considered a relatively unspoilt natural oasis, both for its lush nature of terraced fields, […]
Marrakech’s palmeraie has more than 100,000 palm trees that have been planted since the 11th century at the time of the Almoravid dynasty on a 15,000 hectare plot of land in the form of oases irrigated by an ancestral underground […]
The Medina is the historic heart of Marrakech. Founded in 1070-1072 by the Almoravids, it is rich in a thousand years of history.Some magnificent monuments date back to this period: the Koutoubia mosque with its incomparable 77-metre minaret, an essential monument […]
Jemaâ el-Fna Square is true the heart of the Marrakech medina, the crossroads of the city where everything is concentrated. A real permanent theatre scene, it is the most important place in the Medina, where public life takes place day […]
What better way to immerse yourself in Moroccan life than in the Souks of the Medina. It is a bouquet of exceptional scents and beautiful colours between textiles, ceramics, leather, jewellery, spices, lamps and many other trinkets. As you walk […]
The royal necropolis of the Saadian Tombs dates back to the end of the 16th century during the period of the rich Saadian dynasty, and in particular the reign of Sultan Ahmed al-Mansour. The Saadian Tombs are located in the […]
The Bahia Palace (the beautiful or brilliant one) is the tourist spot by excellence in Marrakech.It is one of the masterpieces of Moroccan architecture and art. Located in the medina of Marrakech, this vast residence (8 hectares) in the form […]
The Medersa Ben Youssef is a must-see to discover when visiting Marrakech. It is a jewel of Saadian architecture. This Koranic school was founded at the beginning of the 14th century and then enlarged and redecorated by the Saadians in […]
Located in the north-eastern part of the Kasbah, the El Badi Palace (El Badiî or El Badia) literally means “Palace of the incomparable“. Built at the end of the 16th century, it was erected by the Saadian Sultan Ahmed al-Mansur […]
The Marrakech Museum, located in the Medina of Marrakech next to the Ben Youssef Medersa, is a palace built on a 2,108 m² plot of land with a vast patio of 709 m², typical of Moorish art, which has been […]
The Majorelle Garden is a botanical garden of about 300 species on nearly 1 hectare, an Art Deco villa labelled “Maisons des Illustres” since 2011, and a museum of Berber history, in Marrakech. The Majorelle Garden was created in 1931 […]
Located just beside the Jemaâ el-Fna square in the medina, the Koutoubia Mosque is the most important in Marrakech and was one of the largest in the Islamic world when it was completed in 1158. Its name, which in English […]
The Kasbah is a large fortified district in the southwestern part of the medina of Marrakech, which historically served as a citadel (kasbah) and royal palace complex (Dar al- Makhzen) within the city. A large part of the district is […]
The mountain village of Imlil with its terraced cultivation and mud houses is located at 1,740 m altitude. It is the starting point for the ascent of Mount Toubkal, whose summit is the highest point in the High Atlas as […]
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