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The grand salon
Fireside armchairs beneath orientalist canvases: the palace's evening heart.
The palace
A museum you live in: an Indo-Moorish palace near Marrakech
Arcades, domes and vast salons: 1,700 m² of tadelakt and cedar in 2 hectares of gardens, composed around a private art collection gathered over a lifetime.
A visit in four chapters
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The keepers
The house of Alain & Eliane
Palais Hassoun is kept by its two owners, Alain & Eliane, who found a house in the countryside of Marrakech and made it a world. The house is selected by the MICHELIN Guide, and guests write of their generosity before they write of the domes.
The collection is Alain's: first arts of Africa, carvings from Asia, orientalist canvases, antique books bound in leather, gathered piece by piece over a lifetime. So is every placement. No decorator ever crossed the threshold; each room was composed, hung and lit by his own hand, then given to guests to live among. That is the difference between a décor and a soul.
The collection of Alain, shown room by room by its keeper, on request.
The estate, counted
- 11
- keys, palace rooms and garden villas
- 22
- guests sleeping on the estate
- 300
- guests seated at dinner
- 25 km
- from Marrakech, on the road to Fès
- 2
- hectares of gardens
- 1,700
- m² of built palace
The collection, alive
A private art collection, walked as he hung it
Placed where the morning finds them first: the collection keeps the corridor's hours.
Every placement in the house is by Alain's own hand. The full visit is given in person, room by room, with its keeper.
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The salons
The salons, from the library to the rooftop
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The library
Carved niches of antique books, watched over by figures from the collection.
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The dining rooms
Inside, a table beneath great steel arches. Outside, dinner among the olive trees.
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The rooftop
Low seats, lanterns, and the sun setting the groves alight: the last salon of the day.
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The gardens
Two hectares of gardens and the great pool
Cypress walks, hammocks slung between palms, paths that end in fountains, and the great pool laid before the façade like a second sky. Across two hectares, every hour has somewhere to be spent.
The estate keeps a positive ecological balance: its electricity comes from a rooftop solar plant, and its gardens are fed by on-site composting.
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After dark
The palace by lantern light
At night the corridors light their lanterns and the palace remembers what it is: a witness. Countless evenings have begun here. Yours is simply next.
Palais Hassoun
See the palace in person, then choose a room
Photographs flatten what the palace does to time. Come for a night in one of its 11 keys, or ask for a visit before a wedding or an event: a person answers within a day.