| The médina : As if emerged modestly from the ground not to shake up the landscape and at the same time terribly complex; one can distinguish the mazes, the tangles, the entrances and exits, the ignored routes for the layman, accessible only to the initiate.
The foreigner will get lost with delight in these narrow and tortuous streets. What will emerge at the end of this alley where the sun does not even dare to shine ?
The veiled and Islamized Berber nomads called the Almoravides , who were coming from Mauritania, founded Marrakech in 1602 after having conquered the whole country. Marrakech becomes the capital of their immense empire, from the Sahara to the Mediterranean. The conquerors almohades , who will build Koutoubia and will embellish Marrakech , dreamed of a world of beauty which would extend from the Guadalquivir to the Sahara.
To discover the delights of this environment, we propose to you to stay in the middle of the Médina in Riad ASSOUEL .
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