A trip to Morocco cannot fail to include Marrakech, the city that, despite not being the capital, attracts the largest number of visitors.
The heart of the city is enclosed within the walls of the: MEDINA inside awaits you an intricate network of alleys and alleys, varied markets where you will bargain until you drop, sumptuous palaces and tombs of sultans, finely decorated mosques the nerve center of the city is the vast square -DJEMAA -EL FNA, a unique place animated by street artists, vendors, snake charmers, and Berber musicians.
When the hubbub of the Medina is deafening, seek fresh peace in one of Marrakech's gardens, starting with the magnificent Majorelle Garden
What to see in Marrakech?
Marrakech is a surprisingly rich city full of things to see: you could fill a whole week or more visiting museums and art galleries, famous gardens and others hidden in unlikely corners of the city, mosques, palaces, characteristic streets and squares.
5 ATTRACTIONS IN MARRAKECH
JEMAA SQUARE -EL FNA
The top attraction in Marrakech is Jemaa el-Fna, the city's main square: pulsating with life at all hours, it is bustling with merchants, musicians, street performers, jugglers, snake charmers, and tourists who flock in droves. Lively de day suggestive at night. It is the perfect place to taste Marrochino street food and to attend open-air shows that will catapult you into a Morocco of yesteryear.
BAHIA PALACE
Bahia means beautiful, but this palace in the city deserves a name that emphasizes its grandeur more emphatically. For its construction, the grand vizier Si MUSSA spared no expense and employed the best craftsmen in the country for 14 years: the result is a sumptuous building with over 150 richly decorated rooms. You will only be able to see a few of them, but they will be enough to leave you speechless with wonder, enchanted by inlaid or frescoed ceilings, white Carrara marble, yellow and blue mosaics, precious silks, colored glass and other riches in this palace.
THE TOMBS OF THE SAADITES
More opulence and luxury: this time, however, it is not a palace but a funerary complex: the sumptuous Tombs of the Saadites were built at the behest of the Saadite prince AHMED Al-MANSOUR, who lived at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. these magnificent tombs were discovered only in 1917, a still little-known treasure, which can be accessed through a narrow passage of the mosque of KASBAH moulay el yazid
MAJORELLE GARDENS
The real oasis of Marrakech is the Majorelle Garden, the most famous and the most beautiful of the city's many parks and gardens. Far from the hustle and bustle of the medina, this famous electric blue villa was owned by the parassayist Jacques Majorelle, later purchased and restored by the French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1964. Inside the garden there is the headquarters of the Berber MUSEUM, to visit to learn about the ancient craft traditions of Morocco, while near the garden there is a MUSEUM dedicated to Yves Saint Laurent.
KOUTOUBIA MOSQUE
Unfortunately, the Koutoubia Mosque, like almost all mosques in Morocco, is not open to non-Muslims. However, it would be a shame to leave Marrakech without taking the time to admire this architectural marvel from the outside. Take a close look at the intricate and elegant decorations of the minaret, the tower built in the eleventh century inspired by the Giralda of Seville: the eye will lose itself dreamily among harmonious decorative elements, keystones, exposed stone battlements.