Amanjena
(peaceful paradise) is the first Aman resort on the African continent and is
located just outside the ancient city of Marrakech.
Set within an oasis of
palms and olive trees, Moorish heritage is reflected throughout the pisé-walled
resort, including the pavilions that radiate out from an ancient bassin,
echoing the style of a sultan’s palace.
Amanjena's
rose-blush walls mirror Marrakech, known in Arabic as Al Medina al-Hamra (the
red city). The resort's design emulates the old Moorish pise (packed earth)
buildings, as well as the Berber villages that cling to the High Atlas
Mountains. Marrakech was brought to radiant life by the brilliance of
11th-century Almoravid irrigation. Water is no less the unifying element of
Amanjena, which has as its centrepiece, a large bassin, traditionally a holding
pool to collect water for irrigation. Amanjena's pavilions and maisons extend
from the bassin, fanning out in two directions, separated by reflecting pools
in a landscape of lawns and vines, emerald-clay roofs, marble fountains and
glittering hand-cut, glazed tiles (zellij).
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