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Marrakech Morocco

Why go?

For lavish time-travelling in North Africa’s ancient jewel.

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Every raffish celebrity since World War II has wintered here, enjoying the desert cool of Marrakesh’s luxury riad life

You probably didn’t know

Morocco may be only 13km from Europe but it remains another time and place. That said, a basic grasp of French will go a long way.

Suggested reading/viewing

Marrakech has inspired filmmakers from Alfred Hitchcock (The Man Who Knew Too Much) to Martin Scorsese (The Last Temptation of Christ). Nobel Prize-winner Elias Canett wrote The Voices of Marrakech over a couple of months in the city in the late 1950s. The debut album of Crosby, Stills and Nash featured a track called Marrakesh Express.

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