The 12-acre botanical gardens owned by Yves Saint Laurent have colorful local flora, along with a small café, bookshop, and the Musée Berbère, with Berber art from the designer’s collection.
Hosts rotating exhibitions of more than 6,000 historical photographs. The building is one of the medina’s tallest; stop by its rooftop tea salon for a steaming cup and take in the view of the city.
The grande dame’s Jacques Garcia–designed renovation ushered in ornate, haute marocain décor—plus three private riads, a subterranean spa, and a buzzy restaurant.
Its modest two-story dimensions belie generous rooms in rich purple and yellow silk velvets. The owner’s Arabian stallions graze in immaculate paddocks next to the open-air Le Pavillon restaurant.
This rooftop café in the medina is a wonderful place for tea close to Djemaa el-Fna.
Chef Moha Fedal updates the palace restaurant experience—candlelit courtyards; Berber musicians; heaping platters of food—with lighter fare in Pierre Balmain’s former riad.
