The Garden OF STARS
Riad between Agadir and Taroudant, in southern Morocco
Holiday rental with a resident of Swiss nationality
Your riad for rent: a great character
Charming villa
Designed by the owner of our riad for rent, the architecture is of Berber inspiration. It incorporates the use of ancestral materials from Morocco, such as tadelakt and terracotta from Fez. Arranged in lines, diagonals, chevrons or in combination, with or without cabochons, these are used in most cases in their raw form, but also in the glazed version, as in this photo, which represents the Tiznit bathroom table (south Agadir).
The rooms
Our riad for rent has four bedrooms, each with eight beds. Summer: additional inflatable beds available, for children or teenagers.
Each with a bathroom, the Tiznit (photo) and Marrakech suites on the first floor provide an exceptional view of the swimming pool, the garden, as well as the surrounding fields and houses (no close direct neighbours). More restricted, the Agadir and Taroudant rooms are located on the second floor.
Ecological will
Our villa for rent was built using rammed earth bricks made on site and whose material was extracted from the location where the swimming pool appeared. Framed by load-bearing concrete elements, the rammed earth has the property of cooling the interior temperature by 10 degrees in the middle of summer and maintaining a certain mildness in winter. The only departure from this strong ecological desire is that auxiliary heaters are available to guests of our rental riad.
Living rooms, kitchen, gallery
The ground floor of your villa for rent is mainly reserved for the Salons. The one named Atlas includes a dining area and another to stand in front of the fireplace, Berber style (photo). The Salon Cinq mondes serves as an office. sisn the rising sun side, the fully equipped kitchen is also a crossroads with the first floor and the Souss gallery. Entirely covered, the latter overlooks the swimming pool. We stick to it when it's too hot or too cold outside.
1001 nights
Both inside and outside our rental villa, particular care has been taken with the lights, to make it a real riad from 1001 nights. A hundred lamps and lanterns, all from Morocco, and most made on the Agadir side, but of the most diverse types, create a very special atmosphere, such as this light installed on the ceiling of the Salon Atlas, in front of the fireplace. Around the pool, spotlights highlight the date palms and banana trees.
The garden
Our rental riad is surrounded by a very large garden, which began to be planted when construction started in 2008. It includes all kinds of Moroccan fruit trees, including almond trees (photo), dozens of orange trees, mandarin trees, grapefruit trees and lemon trees. There are also cypresses, olive trees, pomegranate trees, palm trees, banana trees, sugar cane, cactus, vines. On the flower side: flamboyant bougainvillea, oleander, lavender, rosebushes.