Formalities: For an equal stay or three-month-old inferior, the passport in the course of validity .
Prove that the authorities of police of borders (mention of a number during a first visit and cachet of entrance aimed at the passport, at the risk of being, without his knowing it, in illegal stay).

Quick history: Marrakech should be constructed by 1062 by Youssef Ibn Tachfine, founder of dynasty Almoravide. This imperial city became fast a commercial, cultural and religious crossroad for the whole North Africa, Andalusia and part of the Black Africa.
Four dynasties succeeded one another in Marrakech and each left a visible footprint there at present.

Clothing: Essential light Keepings, but not too much, you are in a Muslim country, with a small pullover in mi season.

In winter, envisage something hotter, especially if you have the intention of performing an excursion hereabouts.

Marrakech:To see

This place is the main tourist attraction of Marrakech. It is enlivened of an intense life to give you an astounding show. Idlers, musicians, shopkeepers, dancers, snake charmers, baggars, healers form a heterogeneous and mottled crowd. After dark, the owners of a cheap eating place become established and the place is then completely transformed into a large restaurant open-air.

 

Koutoubia fascinates by the beauty of its forms and the size of its architecture, its minaret, 77 m of top, is visible in more than 25 km. It is the most famous religious monument of Marrakech.

 

This museum is an ancient residence, transformed into art museum, to perpetuate the craft tradition of the city.

 

The painter Jacques Majorelle created this gentle place in 1920. Around his workshop, will make plant bougainvillaeas, banana trees, palms, huge bamboos, yuccas, philodendrons, gerania...
In 1962, the garden fell to abandonment following the decease of the painter, and vegetation was entirely transplanted by the new owners of places: Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé.

 

The palace of Bahia dates about 1880. It was constructed for the great vizier Ahmed Ben Moussa (named Ba Ahmed), it includes 150 rooms and lasted 7 years. The palace is of the single level, its first owner was infirm and could not take staircases up. Rooms are richly decorated, gardens and patios are particularly nice.

 

Dating the epoch of the great sultan Ahmed El Mansour (1578-1603), these tombs were discovered only by 1917 and cease, since, impressing the visitor by the beauty of their decoration.

 

Medina of Marrakech was classified as worldwide heritage of the humanity in 1985.
His architecture did not change for the XVIIth century. The medina constitutes the historical centre of Marrakech, it dates from the 11eme century, but it was destroyed then rebuilt.

 

Souks have narrow alleyways traditionally, to protect themselves from the sun. Here, in Marrakech, they more suspended above the streets of trellises there, to filter light. In the souk of the joiners: plant of skewers, with the aid of a bow which makes turn the room. The same gestures as in the Middle Ages.

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