Majorelle Garden


The Majorelle Garden, today, one of the most important Marrakech tourist landmarks, which is named after the French painter Jacques Majorelle, who was born in French Nancy City in 1886, before we solve the Marrakech for the first time in 1919, where he found the magic required and space appropriate to settle and to continue his profession and his hobby as a painter. Alguenor says that «Marshal for Aouti, the French Resident General days French protectorate in Morocco, is from the Majorelle advised to travel to Marrakech, the famous dry climates, and after standing over the fact of being infected with asthma».

Majorelle and acquired a piece of land in 1924, to make it a garden S_ihr later as «Majorelle Garden», a title and a tourist destination, a park to be opened in 1947.

It seems that the benefit was mutual between the French painter and the city of Morocco, as in a time when the first benefited from the city's dry weather, the latter benefited from the advantages of garden masterpiece, given by the value-added and diversified to meet the level of expectations of visitors.

After a period of death Majorelle, after suffering a traffic accident in 1962, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger will own garden, where would work to ensure the continuation of a space full of life, and the ceremony, which was built by Majorelle for himself in 1931, became holds, today, the Museum of Islamic Art Name , which is located inside the park, and displays the pieces of art summarize the side of Islamic art, and include exhibits pottery, weapons, jewelry and textiles, all of which are from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berger, also displays the museum some of the paintings Majorelle, the fulfillment of the late and pleasure to the eye.

It is noteworthy Moroccan writer and researcher Abdul Samad Kabas «that in the year 1984 offered the park for sale, in order to transform into a hotel and restaurant. Was paramount in the decision degrees of ugliness did not endure Yves Saint Laurent. But it was not, as said by the artist Abdul Razzaq Bensaban, «obsessed with material gain», intervention and acquired the park in order to prevent the risk of execution, which seemed then imminent to doing that by and developed to take its place in the heart of the fabric of the parameters that constitute a magnet for tourists and lovers of gardens from around the globe ».

Thus, unlike some parks that went victim cement attack, it had the good fortune this park that maintained by care Artists, first, Jacques Majorelle, who art came from a minimum drawing and the second, Yves Saint Laurent, who art came from the world of lights fashion.

And founded the Pierre Berger and Yves Saint Laurent, in 2004, «Association radiation protection and Majorelle Garden», which holds the park management and the ceremony, and there is next to the park «Villa Majorelle». Speaks Alguenor about the relationship between Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech, he says, «he had enjoyed good relations Balbstae who they are located surroundings Garden and residence, and was Marrakesh printing, it also, though famous across the world, it while I was staying in Marrakech was abandon uniforms fame for wearing the uniforms of simplicity and humility, heart and mind ».

And because calm needs to Majorelle Garden Voices is aligned, and the nature of the space, the visitor finds himself obsessed Bzkzkh birds accompany sedition Garden and the picturesque nature and exceptional.

The Majorelle garden, in the opinion of many, one of the most Gardens Marrakech charm, where visitors find a place to express the unique spiritual and creative force, on the one hand it is replete with a wealth of plants collected from five continents, the adjacent palm trees and cactus, bamboo and other rare plants and shorten the world in garden.

And goes some Alemrakhien away they are looking for thread link between the five continents plants, which are furnished to the greenest and colors of the garden, and the orientation taken by the Red City, which confirms its universal character, especially after it turned into a favorite destination for visitors and tourists from different continents of the world.

Alguenor believes that «Majorelle is not just a park for a picnic and watching, but they boil down to a green masterpiece red environmental history of the city.»

And provide the garden variety of open tract on the views fantastic, where tulips water and lotus and papyrus and other aquatic plants, growing in pure water basins, with chairs furnished the place, so as to ensure the comfort sitting full and enjoy the beauty of the place and splendor of the moment.

And not the plants alone what distinguishes the park, there are colors that are consistent with each other Introduction diversification beautiful pleased viewers. The Majorelle has, for the end of the thirties of the last century, the park Besbagh bright blue-colored buildings, Seshethr later Bozark Majorelle. But blue Majorelle is not the only color that you recite and is characterized by the garden, there are other colors are consistent and adjacent between, green, orange and other yellow, but it also marks the colors belonging to the park and are characterized by, so we could call this yellow Majorelle and green Majorelle, for example, colors, increase to emphasize the exceptional beauty of the colors that adorn the garden and furnished its shores.

And provide the garden shop to display traditional manufactures, which takes the character and form and Luna dating to visit the garden and the sale received the world's plants, has enabled Marrakech, which is famous as an oasis of palm trees, and the capital of the gardens, on the other sidelines to entertain visitors became arriving from different geographies, languages, religions and races to enjoy Bhmsha, and parks also.
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