Start from 39 curated places around Marrakech, MA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Al Fassia
A decades-old, entirely women-run institution in Gueliz that locals trust for classic Moroccan cooking, from slow-cooked lamb tagine with caramelized onions to a celebrated couscous. The benchmark for traditional Marrakchi food without the medina theatrics.
Amal Center
A social-enterprise restaurant in Gueliz where disadvantaged women train as cooks, serving heartfelt home-style Moroccan dishes you rarely find on menus, like fish tagine and Friday couscous. The best home-cooked meal in the city, with a cause behind it.
Trails & outdoors
Palmeraie
The historic palm grove on the city's northern edge, thousands of date palms threaded with sandy tracks where you can walk, ride a camel, or quad among the oasis greenery. The easiest taste of desert-edge landscape without leaving the city.
Agdal Gardens
A vast, centuries-old royal orchard south of the medina, hundreds of hectares of olive, orange, and pomegranate trees fed by old irrigation basins, with long straight walking avenues. A flat, shaded, wonderfully un-touristed green walk.
Things to do
Yves Saint Laurent Museum
A striking terracotta-brick museum beside Jardin Majorelle devoted to the designer who fell for Marrakech, rotating selections from his couture archive in a beautifully lit gallery. A polished, compact stop that even non-fashion people tend to enjoy.
Musée Dar El Bacha
A restored early-20th-century pasha's palace in the medina, the Museum of Confluences, set around a stunning zellij-and-fountain courtyard with rotating cultural exhibitions. Worth it for the architecture alone, with one of the city's loveliest courtyards.
Landmarks & sights
Jemaa el-Fnaa
The vast UNESCO-listed square at the heart of the medina, a daytime market of juice carts and snake charmers that erupts after dark into a smoke-wreathed carnival of food stalls, musicians, and storytellers. The chaotic, unforgettable center of Marrakech life.
Koutoubia Mosque
The city's largest mosque and its great navigational landmark, its 12th-century minaret rising above the medina and visible from all over town. Non-Muslims cannot enter, but the floodlit tower and the rose gardens around it are the classic Marrakech sight.