Visit the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech: tickets, prices, times

Are you planning a stay in Morocco? What are you looking for in Marrakech? Here is our guide to visit the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech!

Located in Marrakech – nicknamed the "red city" or "ocre city" -, fourth city of Morocco after Casablanca, Fez and Tangier , the Jardin Majorelle is a botanical garden with a tourist vocation created by the painter French artist Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) in 1931. Purchased by Yves Saint-Laurent (1936-2008) and Pierre Bergé (1930-2017) in 1980, he is one of the most visited sites in Morocco and attracts nearly 600,000 visitors every year. With an area of 8,000 sqm, the garden is inspired by the Moroccan oasis and the Spanish and Islamic gardens of the Moorish style. A small haven of peace in the middle of the stir in Marrakech, the garden Majorelle offers a festival of bright colors where the blue is in honor. Are you also planning to visit the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech? Here is our little guide on this essential activity of a stay in Morocco!

History of the Major Garden in Marrakech

In the early 20th century, the French painter Jacques Majorelle settles in Morocco. We are in 1919 and the country is still a protectorate administered by France. In 1922, he decided to acquire a palm grove northwest of the Medina of Marrakech. In 1929, he asked architects Robert Poisson and Paul Sinoir to build an artist’s villa-workshop, inspired by the Moorish styles and art-deco. The painter built his main residence there and created a tropical botanical garden, set on the style of the Islamic garden. With his travels, he reports many species and people his garden, composed of yuccas, jasmines, nympheas, coconut trees, orange trees, banana trees, bougainvilliers, fuchsias, cactus, agaves and, among other species, bamboo. There are also fountains, basins, water jets, pergolas, aisles. After I invented blue Major In 1937 he repainted the walls of the villa of his invention and opened his property to the public in 1947.

Repatriated in Paris due to a car accident, he leaves the garden to abandon several years, but the couturier Yves Saint-Laurent and the businessman Pierre Bergé discovered the site in 1966. Threatened by the appetites of real estate developers who are planning to grow concrete, the two acolytes bought the Jardin Majorelle at the moon of the 1980s. They both lend themselves to prevent the construction of a hotel complex, and become owners of the garden. After renovation work, for " making the garden Majorelle the most beautiful garden, the one Jacques Majorelle had thought, envisaged » , they occupy the renowned place "Villa Oasis". Today held by the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint-Laurent , the site houses the botanical garden – where more than 300 species of plants grow -, an Art-deco villa labeled Maisons des Illustres and the Museum of Berber History.

What to see and do at the Majorelle Garden?

What to see when visiting the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech? One. predefined route helps to visit the main garden, between trees and tropical plants, ponds and fountains.

By passing the main door, the lush vegetation plunges you into a resurgent silence, covered by the singing of birds (and the noise of the tourists' footsteps). The garden as such includes the garden plants, the Berber Museum, the museum library, the Yves Saint-Laurent Memorial. You will not miss one of the main attractions of the garden: blue square fountain Majorelle and the contrast between the blue color and the plants.

The Berber Museum retraces the history of this North African people whose origins date back to the Prehistory, 9,000 years back. The museum is dedicated to the Berber culture, history and language around three sections: material and intangible know-how, berber jewellery trims, and the match: costumes, weapons, weaving, home decorations.

How to visit the Majoral Garden in Marrakech?

You can view a visit plan online before entering the site. To visit the garden Majorelle, a sense of visit (not compulsory, fortunately!) is possible: you start with the fountain of the entrance to see, to the right, the typed plants. Not far, we don't miss the famous Blue Square Fountain Majorelle, which faces the Berber Museum. You can buy souvenirs at the Mallorella shop or unwind at the museum's café. The visit continues on the basin to the nenuphars. On the other hand, the great palm tree makes us believe in the wilderness. Finally, the Yves Saint-Laurent Memorial and the bambouseraie punctuate the visit.

How to go to the Majoral Garden in Marrakech?

• By bus : until the stop Boukar Majorelle
• By taxi : the simplest, careful with the race rate
• On foot : the Majorelle garden is located on the streets Yves Saint-Laurent and Yacoub El Mansour, about a hundred meters north of the bus station

Schedules and rates of the Majorelle Garden

HORARI

The main garden is open every day of the year:

• 1 October to 30 April from 8am to 5:30pm
• 1 May to 30 September From 8am to 6pm
• Months of Ramadan from 9am to 5pm

The Berber museum is open from 10am to 6pm and garden of Villa Oasis – accessible to people with reduced mobility – is open from 10am to 4pm .

RATES

There are several rates to visit the Majorelle Garden:

• Rate

– Majoral garden: 70 dirhams (6,45 €) - Berber museum : 25 dirhams (2,30 €)

• Moroccan citizens and foreign residents

– Majoral garden : 40 dirhams (3,68 €) - Berber museum : 10 dirhams (0,92 €)

• Moroccan Student Rate

– Majoral garden: 25 dirhams (2,3 €) - Berber museum : 5 dirhams (0,46 €)

• Foreign Student Tariff

– Garden : 35 dirhams (3,22 €) - Berber museum : 25 dirhams (2,3 €)