Jardin Majorelle

The Garden, which extends over 9000 m2 today, is one of the most enchanting and mystical gardens in Morocco. Created over the space of forty years, the complex, surrounded by walls, consists of a labyrinth of intersecting alleys, intertwining levels and Moorish Art Deco buildings in bold colors. The garden is a gigantic and opulent collection of exotic plants and trees from the most distant lands, designed as both a sanctuary and a laboratory by the French painter Jacques Majorelle from 1922. 

In 1980, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, who discovered Morocco in 1966, bought the Garden to save it from a hotel complex project which envisaged its destruction.Read more