Vanessa Branson’s art-filled A list riad has long fires in most of its 21 suites, as well as its own cinema, library and spa and hammam. The ancient walls are over a metre trick in the most private of old Marrakesh retreats. There’s hiking to be had in the High Atlas, or you can just sit and read Paul Bowles “the Shelttering Sky” and dream of what’s beyond the Palmeraie.
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