BAB KSOUR-RMILA, while entering the Medina through this
bab (door) which is not far from the Koutoubia Mosque, continue
straight to the Mouassine fountain, go through the door of the
souk of the dyers which crosses souk Kchachbia. While entering
the latter and 20 m away on your right, you will find the door
of the Mosque (Souk el Hanna), and right beside it is located
THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY shop of souk el Hanna- where you will
get all necessary information relating to THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY.
To arrive at THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY Talaa Souk, cross the Souk
of the Turkish slippers (souk des babouches), and continue on
the left then on the right to Talaa souk.
See the plan
BAB FTOUH, this gate is on the left side of the Jamaa
el Fna square. While passing through Bab Ftouh, continue straight
on to the end, turn right to find the Mouassine Mosque, and
right beside it go through the Souk of the dyers which crosses
souk Kchachbia. While entering the latter and 20 m. away on
your right, you will find the door of the Mosque (Souk el Hanna),
and right beside it is located THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY shop of
souk el Hanna- where you will get all the necessary information
relating to THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY. To arrive at THE QOUBBA
ART GALLERY Talaa Souk, cross the Souk of the Turkish slippers
(souk des babouches), and continue on the left then on the right
to Talaa souk.
See the plan
BAB SEMARINE, go along souk Semarine until the crossing
of lanes then take the lane on the left, once in front of the
BMCE Bank, continue straight until you reach the small place
giving access to the door of the Mosque (Souk el Hanna), you
will be in front of THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY souk el Hanna- which
will provide you with the necessary information relating to
THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY . To arrive at THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY
Talaa Souk, cross the souk of the turkish slippers (souk des
babouches), and continue on the left then on the right to Talaa
souk.
See the plan
PLACE RIAD LAAROUSSE, take the street leading to the
Sidi Abdelaziz Marabout, then turn on the left (and walk) until
the crossing of narrow lanes, after that turn right and continue
straight on, then left, cross a great place called (Ben Youssef),
THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY is 50 m. away from the Museum of Marrakesh.
See the plan
THE QOUBBA ART GALLERY
Located :
91, Souk Talaa (close to the Museum of Marrakech)
40000 Marrakesh Medina
Tel/Fax: (212) 044 38 05 15
115, Souk El Hanna
(close to the souk of the babouches )
40000 Marrakech Medina
Tel/Fax: (212) 044 42 71 32
E mail : laqoubba@iam.net.ma
And Marrakesh was born........ It is on a beautiful day of May 1070/462 that
the significant caravan of the Almoravides arrived at the site
chosen by the sheiks of the tribes. At the head of the procession
Abou Baker and Youssef Ben Tachfine rode side by side, surrounded
by their retinue lemtouna, the masmouda heads (of the plain)
and the eminent notables of the laughing town of Aghmat.
"The Nfiss valley would be its garden, the grounds of Doukkala
its attic, and the reins of the Atlas government occupied by
fierce mountain dwellers in the hands of his master". It is
in these terms that the site where Marrakesh was going to rise
had been presented to Abou Baker by his advisers.
The seniors of the tribes chose this immense naked and flat
plain, which for vegetation had only lotus trees, tufts of jujube
trees and coloquintes, and for inhabitants, except some tents,
gazelles, ostriches and deers, which was held as far as the
eye can see since the north-western slope of fabulous and inaccessible
snow-covered Atlas mountains, to the foot of the ashy and pointed
hills of the rough chain of Djebilet in the north, they chose
this plain because this ground, not far from which ran the Tensift
river, had all the necessary qualities. Indeed, it not only
constituted a no-man's land, because it was at equal distance
from the two straggling villages, Ourika and Haylana d' Aghmat,
separated by gardens, but also, it was close to the nourishing
natural areas and at the crossing of the large Atlas valleys,
an obligatory stop over of the caravans coming from Hoggar and
the Sudan.
This central and strategic position, was going to make the new
city not only one point of union where all the large tracks
converged, but also an admirable check point thanks to the hill
of Gueliz, located at the medium of the plain and which represented
an excellent headland of monitoring.
There was no lack of the natural richnesses essential to the
establishment of a city: wood in the Atlas valleys, whose high
reliefs constituted a marvellous water tank, the blue sand stones,
considered as excellent stones of construction, the grinding
stone in Djebilet, abundant sands in the beds of the wadis,
not to mention the excellent quality of the ground and its abundant
ground water.
