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Forests
Jardins de l'Agdal
Green space the city keeps · Marrakech, Morocco
4.2★Rating
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Year-round, but Oct–Apr for clear Atlas views; midday Jun–Aug is punishing and there is almost no shadeBest time
The experience
A 340-hectare walled royal garden begun in the 12th century under the Almohad caliph Abu Ya'qub Yusuf, running about 3 km inside a 9 km wall and listed by UNESCO in 1985. At its centre is the Dar al-Hana reservoir, 208 by 181 metres and holding some 83,000 cubic metres, with a second irregular basin, Al-Gharsiyya, built around a square island. Water arrives through khettara — underground channels that bring it down from the High Atlas — with a modern khettara added in 1932–33. What you actually do here is walk kilometres of straight olive and orange alleys; it is a working orchard, not a manicured park. It is a 30-minute walk or a short petit taxi ride south of the medina.
Kilometres of 12th-century royal olive grove that almost nobody in the medina realises they can walk into.
olive alleysroyalworking farmlandopen two days a week
Where it is
Marrakech, Morocco · Agdal, south of the Kasbah. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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