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Forests
Jardin de la Ménara
Green space the city keeps · Marrakech, Morocco
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Year-round; winter and spring give the clearest mountains, and Jun–Aug you want the last two hours of daylightBest time
The experience
An olive-orchard garden established in 1157 by the Almohad ruler Abd al-Mu'min, roughly 1,200 metres long and 720–800 metres wide, just west of the city walls. Its reservoir measures 195 by 160 metres and was deliberately built above ground level so gravity could feed the orchards around it; the water still arrives by khettara from the High Atlas water table. The stone pavilion with the pyramidal green-tiled roof was finished in 1870 under Sultan Muhammad IV. It shares UNESCO listing with the Agdal and the medina, and most visitors stay ten minutes at the water and leave.
The postcard of Marrakech — pavilion, basin, snow on the Atlas behind — is free, and the olive grove around it is empty.
olive grovemirror basinAtlas backdroplate-afternoon light
Where it is
Marrakech, Morocco · Ménara, west of the ramparts. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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