Marrakech

Marrakech was founded by Youssef Ibn Tachfine of the Almoravid dynasty in 1062.
This is one of the most popular destinations in Morocco.
The glorious era of the Almoravids resulting number of extraordinary monuments that characterize the city as mosques or madrassas (religious schools). Nicknamed red city, Marrakech has indeed a huge potential to please and attract visitors.
Marrakech is Morocco's 3rd largest city by population and is the tourist capital of the country.

Climate of Marrakech:

Marrakech has a continental climate with hot summers. In winter night temperatures may go down to the frost point. From November to March, temperatures hover around twenty degrees on the day. It rains very little in Marrakech. The Chergui, a hot wind from the Sahara, contributes to the hot summer temperatures.

Places to visit:

Koutoubia:

Marrakech Koutoubia is the landmark,it dates from the twelfth century and has served as a model to build the Hassan Tower in Rabat and also at the Giralda in Seville.

The tower is seventy-seven meters to the top of the boom, Koutoubia is not open but you can walk in the gardens all around. Don't miss, at sunset, the Koutoubia lights, giving him a different look.

Marrakech koutoubia

Jemaa el Fna:

This square is the principal tourist attraction of Marrakech. Real "court of miracles", it is animated by an intense life to offer an fabulous spectacle. Onlookers, musicians, shopkeepers, dancers, snake charmers, healers ... form a whimsical and colorful crowd. At nightfall, the gargotiers then settled and the place is transformed into a vast open-air restaurant where you are able to enjoy a low price all the local specialties.

The restoration is outdoors, in the foreground: tagines.

From the terrace of the cafes in the square, one can perceive the chain of snowy mountains a few miles away.

Marrakech Jemaa el Fna

Souks:

In the souks of Marrakech you will find:

• The souk brass.
• Smata souk (Souk slippers).
• Chouani souk (Souk weavers).
• Habbadine souk (Souk blacksmiths).
• The souk of dyers (Beautiful pictures guaranteed as many colors).
• Cherratine souk (Souk leather).

Friday (day of great prayer) everything is almost closed between 11h and 16h; and also during certain festivals such as Eid el Kebir.

Marrakech souk

Menara:

Menara is located not far from the center of Marrakech, it's a large garden with forty varieties of olive trees around a vast pool that serves as a reservoir for irrigation of plants.

This basin is fed by an old hydraulic system called Qanat allowing to bring water from distant mountains thirty kilometers from Marrakech.

The Menara Gardens were built around 1147 by the Caliph Abd al-Mu'min which seized Marrakech in establishing the Almohads who supplanted the Almoravids.

Marrakech menara