Located in the modern Guéliz zone outside the medina, this is a legacy of legendary French designer Yves Saint-Laurent (1936-2008), born in French Algeria, where he and partner Pierre Bergé spent long stretches since first visiting in 1966, and bought the this 12-acre spread in 1980, named after the lovely, blue-hued, Moorish/Art Deco masterpiece created by painter Jacques Majorelle in the 1930s and 40s. The couple lived in one of the villas on the property; Saint-Laurent's ashes were scattered in the rose garden; and today the garden is open to the public, with the painter's onetime studio turned into a Museum of Islamic Art.

Read more in our post The Contemporary/Chic Side of Marrakesh.

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