MAJORELLE GARDEN
Jacques Majorelle is
born in Nancy (France) in 1886. He was the son of the famous
cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle. He came to Marrakech in 1919 to pursue
his career as a painter Artistri. In 1924 he purchased land that was
going to become the Majorelle Garden. In 1947 he opened his garden to
the public, that tradition has never ceased. Following a car accident
he went into France where he died in 1962.
MENARA GARDEN
That's the beauty of his pelvis which
made the legend of the Menara garden, once owned by the Sultans in
Marrakech. Less extensive than Agdal than ten hectares, this park was
created around 1250, planted with beautiful trees, some palm trees and
cypresses.
Meeting place for lovers, it is beautiful at sunset. To the north,
among the olive trees, stands a small pavilion Saadian the late
nineteenth century to the green pyramidal roof, the menzeh, which is
reflected in the basin surrounded by a canal fed by water from the
Atlas. From its upper terrace, you can embrace the panorama of the city
and its gardens.
AGDAL GARDENS
The oldest Arab-Andalusian gardens,
Sultan Abd El Moumen and his successor Abu Youssef Yacoub did crash in
the twelfth century, a huge enclosed garden to the south of the city.
Nicknamed El Bouhayra - "Little Sea" - by then Masarat Saadians, this
park was eventually called Agdal, Berber term adopted in the Alawite
dynasty. Its creators of the Almohad period have introduced new rules
in the design of gardens.