Behind the Jardin Majorelle's cobalt walls, Villa Oasis was the private Marrakech residence where Yves Saint Laurent lived and worked for decades. A guided tour, for five people by appointment, opens the interior for the first time to those who know to ask.
In a 1930s villa with Art Déco sensibility on Avenue Echouhada, Comptoir Darna has spent twenty-five years calibrating the relationship between Moroccan cuisine, belly dance, Gnaoua music, and electronic nightlife into a single coherent evening.
A two-hour perfume workshop in Guéliz where thirty raw materials and Morocco's centuries-old olfactory tradition meet at a single workstation, and you leave with a fragrance that belongs only to you.
Above a historic building in the northern Medina, Flowers brings Marrakech a sharing kitchen built on open fire and seasonal Moroccan ingredients. The rooftop terrace knows the city's light. The rest depends on who is cooking, and here the answer is solid.
Five galleries in Marrakech, each occupying a distinct position: from Sidi Ghanem's industrial warehouses to a renovated Gueliz building to a space inside the Mandarin Oriental, the city's contemporary art geography is taking shape.
Marrakech offers one of the most layered accommodation landscapes in the world. Riads that fold you into the Medina's fabric, grand palaces that create a world within the world, and estates in the Palmeraie that make space the point. Here is how to read them.
Seven historic riads merged into one medina property: fourteen rooms named after Marrakech's cultural icons, a five-million-pound art collection, and a rooftop restaurant with a Michelin Key and views to the Atlas.
A house designed by Charles Boccara and once home to the sociologist Paul Pascon, Jnane Rumi opened in April 2025 as an eleven-suite retreat in the Palmeraie, with a curated contemporary art collection, century-old gardens, and a kitchen led by chef Karin Gaasterland.
A Saadian palace garden in the Mouassine medina, restored and reopened in 2016 after a decade of work. Two distinct gardens, a restored khettara irrigation system, and a seventeen-meter tower make this one of the most layered historical sites in the city.
In Gueliz, inside a renovated Art Deco arcade, Driss Aloui's nature-to-table cooking occupies a position that most Marrakech restaurants have yet to locate: cross-cultural in technique, rooted in land rather than trend.
Dar Yacout occupies an eighteenth-century riad in the northern medina, its interiors shaped by Bill Willis and its evenings structured around a five-course Moroccan feast. One of the city's oldest dining addresses, still following its own protocol.
A concept store, poolside restaurant, and boutique hotel on Rue Yves Saint Laurent, built by the founders of The Moroccans skincare around a simple idea: that a brand rooted in Moroccan botanicals could become an entire world.