Casablanca Trip Overview
At 8:00 AM your tour guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel to begin your Marrakech tour from Casablanca.
After 2:30 hours driving, you will enjoy the rest day in Marrakech. The historical sightseeing including Majorelle Garden, Jamaa Elfna square and Bahia and BAdii Palace .
Lunch (optional) will be served at a local restaurant before visiting the souks and handicraft quarters in the afternoon to go shopping.
End the day at the famous Djemâa ElFna before returning to Casablanca city. The tour will last around 10 hours, returning you to your hotel in Casablanca in the evening around 6:00 PM.
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* Duration: 12 hours
* Starts: Casablanca, Morocco
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
At 8:00 AM your tour guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel to begin your Marrakech tour from Casablanca.
After 2:30 hours driving, you will enjoy the rest day in Marrakech. The historical sightseeing including Majorelle Garden, Jamaa Elfna square and Bahia and BAdii Palace .
Lunch (optional) will be served at a local restaurant before visiting the souks and handicraft quarters in the afternoon to go shopping.
End the day at the famous Djemâa ElFna before returning to Casablanca city. The tour will last around 10 hours, returning you to your hotel in Casablanca in the evening around 6:00 PM.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Jardin Majorelle, Rue Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech 40090 Morocco
Yves Saint-Laurent fell in love with the Majorelle Garden, which is one of the most photographed gardens in Marrakech.
What are you going to find in the Majorelle Garden? An incomparable collection of plants from the five continents: cactus, palms, jasmines and bamboos harmoniously integrated to the pools and marble fountains.
One of the stars of this garden is the blue building, result of the combination of the primary colors. This building was the studio of Jacques Majorelle. It is based on the Art Deco style and it also has Moorish influences.
Yves Saint-Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé discovered the Majorelle Garden during a trip in which they fell in love for ever with Marrakech. Eventually, the couple bought the gardens in 1980 and transformed Majorelle’s studio into a museum. Moreover, they also completed the plant collection.
Nowadays, followers of Yves Saint-Laurent, art and botanic lovers and visitors looking for a moment of relax in Marrakech are fascinated with the beauty of this place.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Jemaa el-Fnaa, 38 Jemaa el-Fna, Rue El Ksour, Marrakech Morocco
Jamaâ El Fna is a destination for all magic, and tells its storytellers, dancers, water sellers and snake charmers, the history of Morocco from yesterday and today while subduing its visitors by Its charm which begins in the morning and finds its height only in the evening. The medieval Moroccan chronicles written between the 11th and the 14th centuries refer to a Rahba al-Ksar, an esplanade of the palace situated in the middle of the olive, religious monument, the minaret of the Koutoubia close to the square. In the area of the Koutoubia. Public punishments had been imposed publicly since the 12th century.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: El Badi Palace, Ksibat Nhass, Marrakech Morocco
THE BADI PALACE, THE RUINS OF AN ANCIENT WONDER
The Badi palace was known as “The Incomparable” because of its beauty and its large dimensions.
According to the ancient chroniclers more than 300 rooms were decorated with gold, crystal pearls and turquoises. This decoration was somehow inspired by Spanish Andalusí Heritage, as La Alhambra or the Taifas.
It was built in the 16Th. century to commemorate the victory of Sultan Ahmed al-Mansour over the Portuguese in the Battle of the Three Kings. For two hundred years it was the cultural and political center of Morocco, until Sultan Moulay Ismail decided to move the capital to the city of Meknes and leave Badi Palace.
Today Badi palace is still a cultural and religious reference point in Marrakech: the minbar of the Koutoubia Mosque remains inside and the moecin still calls for prayer.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Palacio da Bahia, 5 Rue Riad Zitoun el Jdid, Marrakech 40000 Morocco
The palace of Bahia (palace of the beautiful, the brilliant) is a nineteenth century palace of eight hectares located in Marrakech. It is one of the masterpieces of Moroccan architecture, one of the major monuments of the country’s cultural heritage and one of the main places of tourism in Morocco.
Between 1866 and 1867 the northern part of this vast palace of 8000 m² (the largest and most luxurious palace of Morocco of its time) is built in the south-east of the medina of Marrakech, close to the current royal palace, by the Moroccan architect El Mekki. It is built for Si Moussa, chamberlain of Sultan Hassan I of Morocco.
Ahmed ben Moussa (1841-1900, son of Si Moussa, successor to his father as chamberlain) reign over Morocco from 1894 to his demise in 1900 as regent of the young sultan Abd al-Aziz of Morocco. During his reign, Ahmed ben Moussa enlarged the southern part of the official palace and their many children. The powerful Ahmed Ben Moussa would have erected this palace for his favorite mistress, hence the name of Bahia “the beautiful, the brilliant”.
At the death of Ben Moussa, Sultan Abd al-Aziz of Morocco takes power and orders the looting of the palace. The latter established the French protectorate in Morocco, under which General Lyautey, then resident general of France in Morocco (future Marshal of France) in fact, from 1912, his personal place of residence and a residence of French officers in there. adding fireplaces, heating and electricity.
Duration: 1 hour
