Marrakech is one of the major cities of Morocco, and is south of the country, at the foot of the Atlas, to 466 meters. Has numerous world heritage monuments, which makes it the country’s main tourist attraction. Next to Rabat, Fez and Meknes, is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco.

It was founded by the Almoravids in 1062 and was capital of the Islamic Empire. The city has the largest traditional market in the country suq and Djemaa el Fna, one of the busiest squares in Africa and the world. In this square brings together acrobats, storytellers, water sellers, dancers and musicians. At night, the square is filled with food stalls, becoming a huge open-air restaurant.

Marrakech, Medina Al-Ham’ra dubbed (the Red City in Arabic) because of the color of its construction and the predominant color in your environment, is also known as La Perla del Sur or Southern Gate. Your name Marraki or Marrakech, etymology may come from two words of the Tamazight (Berber), mur (n) akuch meaning Land of God. Marrakech, has given name to the country, Morocco, as it is a distortion of his name. The climate is dry Mediterranean Marrakech.

Frosts are rare and in contrast, summer temperatures are high, exceeding 40 º C. the rainfall is concentrated between October and May, which is often torrential. Marrakech, is now an international city with a foreign community living permanently and that is constantly growing.

From the eighties began to land in Marrakech on foreigners, attracted by the myth of the exotic Marrakech. Some decided to move to Medina, restoring buildings that were in total decline. This phenomenon of Europeans in the Medina at first was somewhat sporadic, was in the mid-nineties that the real boom exploded.

A French television program was the ‘accountability’ of the European explosion live in Marrakech, in explaining that to live in Marrakech with money from Paris reached a modest little flat and too much. With that money could buy a “Riyadh” (palace) and live like a prince. So in a few years came the “town of Riyadh, is a diverse community has in common desire to invent a new lifestyle. Owning a home in Marrakech, today is a dream increasingly practiced, but it is expensive. Although prices have risen even still appear lower than those of European and American cities. The road of Marrakech and seems marked and the future of this city is increasingly directed toward tourism.