The Menara Garden in Marrakesh City : Symbol of culture and history

 

Menara is a large landscaped garden with olive trees under the Almohad dynasty about 45 minutes walk from the Jamaa El Fna Square, in central Marrakech, Morocco. At the heart of this garden, a large pond at the foot of a pavilion serves as a water reservoir to irrigate crops. It is a very peaceful place, away from the bustle of the city. It is an ideal place for walks.

 

 

Menara is an ancient olive grove, still cultivated, irrigated with a rectangular pool, fed, for over 700 years, through a line of thirty kilometers from the mountains. This is not strictly speaking a pond, but the water is not currently clear.

The basin is supplied with water through an old hydraulic system of more than 700 years, which brings water from the mountains located about 30 km from Marrakech. This basin allows irrigation of the olive grove. 

 

A metal platform spoil this princely decor that was used for the love of the sultans in the charming pavilion pyramid roof. Menara opens its main avenue in a spectacular alignment with the Koutoubia. This park, designed royally serves as privileged place of walk for the Red City.

This basin allows irrigation of the olive tree. True desert garden at a short separation of the focus Marrakech Menara is a great garden with 40 varieties of olive trees around a huge basin that serves as a reservoir for irrigation of plants. This is one of the places in addition to the calm of Marrakech and many people go there to find tranquility at the edge of standard powered water basin of the mountain you can admire the horizon. This basin is supplied standard a very old hydraulic system called Qanat allowing bringing water from distant mountains 30 kilometers from Marrakech.

 

For visitors who wish to enjoy the freshness of the place, the entrance to the gardens is free while an entry fee of 20 dirhams are asked to visit the pavilion. The Menara Gardens are one of the main attractions of Marrakech, as well as the Koutoubia, Place Jamaa El Fna, the Ben Youssef Madrasa, the El Badi Palace and the Agdal Gardens.