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35 DHL
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36 FedEx
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37 Main Post Office
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38 Office National Marocain du Tourisme
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39 Pharmacie Centrale
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40 Pharmacie de l'Unité
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41 Polyclinique du Sud
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42 Voyages Schwartz
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44 La Plaza Car
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45 Royal Air Maroc
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HISTORIC PARK
Jardin Majorelle
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( 0524 31 30 47; www.jardinmajorelle.com ; cnr Aves Yacoub el-Mansour & Moulay Abdullah; garden
Dh50, museum Dh25; 8am-6pm summer, 8am-5.30pm winter) Other guests bring flowers, but
Yves Saint Laurent gifted the Jardin Majorelle to Marrakesh, the city that adopted him in
1964. Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé bought the electric-blue villa and its
garden to preserve the vision of its original owner, landscape painter Jacques Majorelle,
and keep it open to the public. Thanks to Marrakshi ethnobotanist Abderrazak Ben-
chaâbane, the garden Majorelle began cultivating in 1924 is now a psychedelic desert
mirage of 300 plant species from five continents.
Majorelle's art-deco studio houses a Berber Art Museum , showcasing the rich panorama
of Morocco's indigenous inhabitants in displays of some 600 artefacts, including wood,
leather and metalwork, carpets and textiles, musical instruments and a display of tradition-
al dress that makes Star Wars costumery look staid and unimaginative. Best of all is the
mirrored, midnight black, octagonal chamber displaying a sumptuous collection of chis-
elled, filigreed and enamelled jewels that reflect into infinity beneath a starry desert sky.
 
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