Les Jardins de la Medina

Les Jardins de la Medina occupies a former palace in the southern Medina, its three thousand square metres of garden the organizing principle of a property that could have been a riad but chose to be something larger and greener. Thirty-six rooms are distributed around the garden in types that engage the outdoor space differently: Superior Patio rooms open onto enclosed courtyards with fountains, Superior Garden rooms sit directly against the private gardens, and the Sultane accommodation looks over the garden or accesses its own courtyard. The rooms are composed in white walls, dark furniture, and jewel-toned patterned fabrics, their shuttered windows providing light control and privacy in the manner of the Marrakech house they were once part of. The garden's pale blue pool, with a shallow entrance and towels laid out to match the water, is surrounded by towering palms that line the walkways through the tropical planting; olive and bitter orange trees contribute fragrance at the appropriate season. A rooftop area provides the elevated outdoor space, its white sofas and loungers with the Medina roofscape extended to the skyline. A spa with locally inspired treatments and a restaurant serving Moroccan dishes complete the property's infrastructure. Les Jardins de la Medina is a Medina hotel that solved the garden problem: it has three thousand square metres of one, and it shows, and it is generous with it.