Travel & Places

A Night in the Square of Marrakech

A traveller is swept up in the sights, sounds, and hospitality of Marrakech's great square.

C110 min

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1As the sun set over Marrakech, the great square of the old city began to transform.

2Smoke rose from a hundred grills, and the air filled with the smell of spices.

3Storytellers gathered circles of fascinated listeners, their voices rising above the drums and the flutes.

4A man in a bright blue robe offered me mint tea and refused my money twice.

5Only when I accepted the tea as a gift did he smile and sit beside me.

6He told me that his family had worked in this very square for five generations.

7All around us, the market pulsed with a rhythm that felt older than the city walls themselves.

8Every one of my senses was overwhelmed, yet somehow the chaos felt perfectly ordered and alive.

9That night, I finally understood why travellers have been drawn to this place for so many centuries.

10Some cities you merely visit, but Marrakech is a city that you feel deep in your blood.

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