Marrakech Info Source

Marrakech District Source

• MEDINA.It was built in 1126-1127 by the Almoravida administration. With the dinasty fall, in 1147, most of the monuments were destroyed. During the 1147-1158 period, Abd el Mu''men built, above the almoravides ruins, the Kutubia mosque, whose 77mt tower is one of the city symbol.
  Once you enter in the Medina you will be surrounded by a medieval ambient with a different rhythm and lots of differents smells and enrapting sounds due to the presence of dyer,blacksmiths,jewellers and cabinet makers.
  
• VICTOR HUGO. The neighbourhood Victor Hugo is part of Guéliz district (it is situated in the north of Guéliz) that is one of the new neighbourhoods built by the French during the past century outside the medieval medina of Marrakech. Even being outside of the medina all is painted in red colours, which characterizes the medina and the city.
  Here you will find hotels and other modern installations for the Europeans tourist and high-class people of Marrakech. This are contains also the French high School.
  There is also a lot of commerce: restaurants, bakeries, coffees, pharmacies, a supermarket as well as a modern clinic. You can find a pleasant typical market and in 5 minutes walking the avenues Mohamed V and VI, with their shops which will make pleasant your walk.
  
• GUÉLIZ. The district of Gueliz got his name from the Jbel Gueliz, a low mountain situated in the northwest part of the old medina amd it was the first neighborhood on the exterior of the walls. Articulated around the current Avenue Mohammed V, which links Square Foucault and Bab Nkob to the Jbel Gueliz, the area of Gueliz includes many banks and shops of Marrakesh. The old market of Guéliz has recently turn into into a commercial gallery. In the imposing Marrakesh Plaza situated in front the post, place of November 16, you will be finding soon many European fashion brands and shops.