KENSINGTON' finest Properties International PROPERTY BIN ENNAKHIL - PALMERAIE - MARRAKECH Who ignores the story of the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the world ? The Mogol Shah Allan built this fantastic marble palace by love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, passed while expecting they fourteenth child. What could be more normal than finding some similar love-inspired story in one of the most fascinating cities of Morocco ? This story is the one of a couple of enamored-with-the-Grenada-Alhambra's-beauty builders. Bargain-hunting, they found the plans of the Andalusian architectural masterpiece in a secondhand bookseller's shop in London. One did not need more, or so little - 1300 talented craftsmen during three full years - to put up a faithful replica of the Alhambra on a 4.6 ha park in the Marrakech palm grove. As years passed by and the exceptional plants in the park matured, the palace merged into the vegetation. They became so intricate that one might think the edifice has been there for centuries. It perpetuates the richness and treasures of the Moroccan crafts, featuring Fez Zeliges, finely chiseled cedars, patiently sculpted by hundred of hands plasters, the whole discretely enhanced by gold paintings. The park has been conceived with the same loving care. It is composed of a marvelous rose garden as well as palm tree paths bordering ornamental lakes and numerous marble fountains. The inspiration of the Andalusian gardeners may be found in the geometrical patterns ornamenting the paths, which separate the bamboo forest, the orange garden and the cactus garden. So many different atmospheres reach the plenitude. PLOT SIZE 4 ha 56 a 60 MAIN HOUSE 4 Master Bedrooms 3 Staff Rooms Finest Properties Marrakech Sarlau Tel Avenue Yacoub El Mansour F Arset Bata 3, App. 13, 5° et. Gueliz • 40000 Marrakech - Morocco 'OCCLUSIVE. ArriLenre OF CHRISTIE'S INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE EFTA00585063