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Once a haven for hippies, Marrakech has outgrown that phase along with its visitors. Today, it's a showcase of high design, mixing Euro cool with the medina's rich colors. The "new Marrakech" look is keeping local craftsmen busy: if you spy a piece[an error occurred while processing this directive] of furniture you like during your stay, most places will sell it to you and ship it back home...
...Mezouar Down an alleyway in the heart of a frenetic medina neighborhood, this old villa's five bedrooms, set around a serene courtyard with orange trees and a mosaic dipping pool, has carved mirror frames, tiled floors and silver-tin light shades. Drink mint tea on the Andalucian balconies or on rich-colored cushions in front of the fireplace in winter. 28 Derb El Hammam, Issebtinne, Medina...
...Maison Arabe The inn's traditional Moroccan waxed walls display Gebbah rugs, copper lamps and carved cedar doors and balconies. Hide away in the candlelit courtyard by the 18th century fountain or eat tapas in the piano bar. 1 Derb Assehbé, Bab Doukkala, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 70 10; www.lamaisonarabe.com Le Foundouk Restaurant This restored caravansary no longer has beds (or camels), but you'll want to curl up on a divan on the rooftop. Expect rap music as you sit under African carvings, wrought-iron balconies and a chandelier that drops three floors through the atrium...
...that sold for j90,000 per hectare six years ago are now priced at €700,000. Per hectare prices in less effervescent areas have risen from €80,000 to €500,000 during the same period. "The only place that isn't rising as fast is the medina (old city), where many people who bought recently have been disappointed," she says. "Now they're selling - and joining the crowd looking to buy elsewhere in Marrakech or Morocco...
...religious traditionalists in the kingdom. The Sauds get virtually limitless wealth, a healthy chunk of which they share with their dour clerical partners and their Wahhabist accountants. In exchange, the royals receive a stamp of religious approval, as the true protectors of the Holy Sites of Mecca and Medina, as well as an understanding that 25,000 or so members of the royal family can do, more or less, anything they please, while the country's 27 million citizens live under strict religious laws mandating traditional dress, shrouding of women, prohibitions against the consumption of alcohol or premarital sex. Adultery...