Les Deux Tours
Tortoises move slowly across the lawn. Small canals carry water through the gardens and into pools you almost miss between the palms and orange trees. Les Deux Tours is a boutique hotel in the Palmeraie — the ancient palm grove east of Marrakech — and it operates at a pace that the city itself rarely allows.
The property runs to three hectares, and the architect Charles Boccara shaped it with an eye for organic form: thick walls, carved detail, rooms that open onto garden rather than corridor. Vegetables for the kitchen come from an on-site plot, and the goat farm is neither a novelty nor a feature — it simply exists, the way things do in a place built to last.
💛 What travellers fall for
People who return tend to stake out a favourite spot early — a poolside chair before the afternoon heat peaks, or a table at Le Salammbô where the menu changes with what the garden is producing. The breakfast buffet, with its Moroccan pancakes and proper pastries, sets a rhythm for the day that is hard to improve on.
How Les Deux Tours came to be
Charles Boccara — Moroccan-born, widely regarded as one of the most influential architects working in the country — conceived Les Deux Tours in the late 1980s, at a moment when the Palmeraie was still largely agricultural land rather than the resort corridor it has since become. His brief to himself was something like an anti-hotel: organic, rooted, built from tadelakt and local materials in a style that draws on both Arabo-Andalucian tradition and the easier modernism of the 1920s.
The property has been growing ever since — literally, in the case of the gardens, which have had three decades to mature around the architecture. The palms are tall now, the bougainvillea established, the canals worn smooth.
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When to go
Spring (March–May) and autumn (late September to mid-November) bring temperatures between 19°C and 28°C — warm enough for the pool, cool enough to walk the gardens in the afternoon. Summer days can reach 38–40°C; if you visit then, the heated pool and shaded terraces become the logic of the day.
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