Villa Catherine

Marrakesh

Magic city par excellence Marrakesh the former capital of the big Berber dynasties always fascinates so much by these contrasts. Witnesses of an animated history or a glory and a decline succeeded one another, she knew how to keep(preserve) the face millennium while turning to the modernity. Geographical and cultural crossroads since her(its) foundation, her always attracted numerous travelers. The charm still operates and more than a million of tourists visit Marrakesh every year. The numerous overflowing bound to this influx did not fortunately manage to distort places and traveler in search of unusual and of authenticity will not be disappointed. The multiple facets of the city can only seduce him. The drainage of time in Marrakesh is particular and it is necessary to give up measuring him, because the rhythms of life decline according to the temperatures. The time chronological, him either, does not answer our rules and the centuries crumple up: on one side the present and the future, with their modern constructions, their sophisticated cars, their technology of point, the other one the Middle Ages, with his unchanged medina, its handcarts, his ancestral professions. The disparities also apply to the lifestyle. Witnesses of a luxurious and sophisticated lifestyle inherited from the sultans, the palaces of her medina, the luxuriant gardens in numerous fountains contrast violently with the extreme perusal of certain popular housing. A weekend in Marrakesh will not probably be enough to drill all the mysteries of Marrakesh and it would be vain to want to discover everything. It is better to get acquainted with places by being allowed drive by his steps and take time to roam in the city, the nose in the sight and the senses on the alert.