Menara garden

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Pavilion in the Menara Gardens with the High Atlas in the background
El Menara at sunset , April 2013
Glance into the olive grove of the garden

The Menara Garden (French: Jardin de la Ménara ; Arabic حدائق المنارة, DMG ḥadāʾiq al-manāra ) is a public city park in Marrakech .

The approximately 100 hectare Menara Garden is laid out around a central water basin that is surrounded by olive tree plantations . The olive grove is irrigated by a water basin in the middle with a widely ramified canal system .

It is about three kilometers outside the city wall and is a popular destination for the locals on weekends.

The garden was laid out in 1156–1157 under the Almohad ruler Abd al-Mu'min . Since 1985 the Menara Garden has been on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, together with the old town of Marrakech and the Agdal Gardens .

Web links

Commons : Menara Garden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Gardens of Marrakech - in pictures . In: The Guardian , April 24, 2013
  2. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Medina of Marrakesh. Accessed August 21, 2017 .

Coordinates: 31 ° 36 ′ 48 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 18 ″  W.