six places to visit in marrakech in one day by foot

Hi every one, Marrakech is a very big beautiful city, where you can visit a lot of wonderful places, in this article i will propose to yo...

Hi every one, Marrakech is a very big beautiful city, where you can visit a lot of wonderful places, in this article i will propose to you, a plan, which you can follow up if you like it of course :

1/ Gueliz boulevard

Begin your day from Gueliz boulevard, here you can have your breakfast, there's a lot of coffee shop all over

2/ Majorelle Garden :

After having breakfast, take the road to Majorelle Garden, preferably by foot, it's not so far from Mcdonald's.

( The Majorelle Garden (Arabic: حديقة ماجوريل‎) is a twelve-acre botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was designed by the expatriate French artist Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s and 1930s, during the colonial period when Morocco was a protectorate of France )

NB : Access is not free and it costs every tourist 30 dirhams Moroccan = 3 dollars

3/ Koutoubia Mosque :

After visiting the beautiful Majorelle garden, the next destination is the famous Koutoubia mosque, (by foot if you can and if you are a little sportif ;-) ) . Spend the rest of the morning there, you can aloso go behinde the mosque, there's a beautifule garden where you can take a break.

You can see other pictures of Koutoubia mosque in this subject

4/ El Badi Palace

The 4rd destination in our plan, is the Badi palace,you can get it by foot too, it's close to koutoubia mosque and Jmaa lafna square, and this is a small defintion of this wonderful monument :

Badi Palace is a masterpiece of engineering in Marrakech, Morocco, built by Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur al-Saadi (1603 E 1578) a few months after taking office and resounding victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of the Valley of the stores in 1578. Chose Ahmed Mansour Achammalaholcherqah corner to build this palace, which is devoted to organizing concerts and official receptions. Works it was launched a month after the December of 1578 and has continued without interruption for 16 years.

Although the palace is currently in ruins, but we Ntoffer on several historical texts and designs enable us to identify and engineered components and architectural decoration. , Indicates Portuguese design dates back to the year 1585 that the palace was surrounded by a fence supported in the four corners towers and access to it was done through several doors of the main ones are located Steering South Bank.

NB : Access is not free and it costs every tourist 20 dirhams Moroccan = 2 dollars

5/ Bahia Palace :

After visiting El Badi Palace, Take the road to the famous Bahia Palace, By foot too ( like that you will enjoy the ride). To know where you are going this is a little definition Of Bahia Palace :

The Bahia Palace is a palace and a set of gardens located in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was built in the late 19th century, intended to be the greatest palace of its time. The name means "brilliance". As in other buildings of the period in other countries, it was intended to capture the essence of the Islamic and Moroccan style. There is a 2 acre (8,000 m²) garden with rooms opening onto courtyards.

NB : Access is not free and it costs every tourist ten dirhams Moroccan

6/ Jamaa el fnaa square :

This is the last step in our walk, after visiting Bahia Palace, go back to jamaa el fnaa square, here you can have a diner, and visit the square, below a small definition of jamaa el fanaa

(Jemaa El Fna Square is a popular space for Gap and entertainment locals and tourists to the population in the city of Marrakech, Morocco, and therefore considered this arena the vibrant heart of Marrakech where she was and continues to the confluence between the city and the Kasbah inventory and navigator point, and a place of pilgrimage for visitors from all over the world to enjoy watching the exciting offers to Marwda Snakes the narrators of riddles and stories, and musicians to other manifestations of popular spectacle, which boil down to a rich and unique heritage was behind the inclusion of this scene in the intangible heritage of humanity proclaimed by the UNESCO in 2001)