Travel Reference
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Places to Shop
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Scènes du Lin
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Aswak Assalam
Browse through the finely-
designed curtains with Fès
embroidery and unusual lamps.
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Map B5 • 70 rue de la Liberté • 0524
43 61 08 • Closed Aug • MC, V accepted
This Western-style super-
market just outside Bab
Doukkala is ideal for stocking up
for long bus journeys.
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Map C5
• Avenue du 11 Janvier
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Place Vendome
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De Velasco
The leather items here are
of greater quality than in the
souks and are designed with an
international flavour.
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Map B5
• 141 ave Mohammed V • 0524 43 52 63
• Closed Jul-Aug
• MC, V accepted
£
Café du Livre
De Velasco houses some
serious (and seriously expensive)
antiques, from giant vases to
Orientalist paintings and glorious
kaftans.
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Map B5 • Résidence le
Verdoyant, 4 ave Hassan II • 0524 43 03
27 • AmEx, MC, V accepted
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L'Orientaliste
A secondhand bookshop
with some new titles connected
with Morocco and Islam.
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Map
B5 • 44 rue Tarik Ben Ziad, next to Hotel
Toulousain • 0524 43 21 49 • Closed Sun
A small shop with small
items like tea glasses and jewel-
lery, its huge basement is pack-
ed with antique furniture.
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Map
B5 • 11 & 15 rue de la Liberté • 0524 43
40 74 • Closed Jul-Aug • MC, V accepted
$
Intensité Nomade
A tiny corner shop with a big
basement stocking mixed pick-
ings by local fashion designers.
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Map B5 • 139 ave Mohammed V
• 0524 43 13 33 • AmEx, MC, V accepted
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El Badii
The best shop for unusual
furnishings, ceramics, old
embroidery, plus a basement full
of carpets. Photos of celebrity
shoppers hang on the walls.
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Map B5 • 54 blvd Moulay Rachid
• 0524 43 16 93 • Closed 1-15 Aug
• AmEx, MC, V accepted
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Galerie Birkmeyer
Good for leather goods or
international designer sports-
wear.
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Map B5 • 169-171 rue Moham-
med El Bekal • 0524 44 69 63 • Closed
15 Jul-15 Aug • AmEx, MC, V accepted
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Marché Central
This is a favourite with
expats for groceries (including
foreign imports), fruits and cut
flowers. Not a bad place for
hassle-free souvenir shopping
either.
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Map C5 • Rue Ibn Toumert
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Most shops shut for two hours at lunch but open late into the
evening; some are open Sunday mornings. Call ahead to check.
