Villa des Orangers

Villa des Orangers stands at the foot of Koutoubia Mosque, the early twentieth-century building organized around three open-sky patios planted with orange trees, the architectural source of the property's name and the element that gives the house its urban-garden quality within the dense fabric of the Medina. The 32 rooms and suites are distributed across two levels, the traditional Moroccan vocabulary of carved plasterwork and delicately worked wooden furnishings running through the interiors without interruption, many rooms opening onto private terraces above the courtyards. A sixteen-metre heated pool occupies the main courtyard; a second pool sits in the garden and a third on the rooftop terrace, the vertical distribution of water across the building's three levels giving the property an unusual spatial generosity for its scale. The Nuxe spa on the rooftop adds a traditional hammam, massage booths including a double cabin, and outdoor treatment positions overlooking the gardens below. A cinema room provides an unexpected indoor amenity at the boutique luxury scale. Two restaurants and a bar complete the hospitality offer, the cuisine drawing on Mediterranean and Moroccan directions with ingredients sourced from local suppliers. The Koutoubia position is among the most advantageous in the Medina: adjacent to the principal mosque, equidistant between the Royal Palace and Jemaa el-Fna, at the edge of the historic fabric in a section of the city whose proportions and calm Villa des Orangers both reflects and sustains. The three planted patios, the cinema room, and the rooftop pool give the building an internal life sufficient for the full duration of a stay without requiring the guest to count the steps to Jemaa el-Fna.