withlocale Guide Marrakech city tour medina & souks

Marrakesh has always been something of a pleasure, a marketplace where the southern tribesmen and Berber villagers bring their goods, spend their money and find entertainment. For visitors it's an enduring fantasy – a city of immense beauty, low, red and tent-like before a great shaft of mountains immediately exciting. Monuments and Palaces: See the famous Koutoubia Tower (11th century), Djemaa el Fna square: Really no more than an open space in the centre of the city, but the stage for a long-established ritual in which shifting circles of onlookers gather round groups of acrobats, drummers, pipe musicians, dancers, storytellers, comedians and fairground acts… Souks: Visit many Souks and Medinas of Marrakech, to see the locals selling everything from fresh vegetables and spices to leather and jewelry.