{"key":"dar-manou-me","blocks":[{"section":"intro","body":"Dar Manou is a study in Moroccan craft built at a scale no city riad can reach. Arched doorways, interior courtyards, carved plasterwork and tadelakt walls are all drawn from riad tradition, but they sit on ten thousand square meters of private grounds instead of a Medina footprint. The center of the house is a double-height courtyard with Moorish arches and wrought-iron balconies overlooking it from above, lit by woven pendants. Seven bedrooms open off it, each with its own bathroom, and the living rooms run into one another through arched passages, so a group of fourteen is never forced into one space."},{"section":"setting","heading":"Walled off the Fes Road","body":"The estate lies along the Fes Road, surrounded by olive groves and other private compounds, eight kilometers and fifteen minutes from the Medina. The entrance is a set of heavy wooden doors, and passing through them shuts the road out completely. Inside the walls there are courtyards, garden paths and Atlas Mountain views to the south. The balance is the point: close enough that a morning in the souks is straightforward, quiet enough by the afternoon that the city might as well not exist. The airport is eighteen minutes and a supermarket ten, so supply runs stay short.","bullets":["Jemaa el-Fna and the Medina fifteen minutes by car","Marrakech Menara airport eighteen minutes, ten kilometers","Yves Saint Laurent Museum fourteen minutes away","Atlas foothills thirty-five minutes out","Le Jardin restaurant a fifteen minute drive","Marjane supermarket ten minutes on the Route de Ouarzazate","Walled and gated compound with security around the clock"]},{"section":"interiors","heading":"The double-height courtyard","body":"Seven bedrooms sit around a courtyard that runs two storeys high, with Moorish arches at ground level and wrought-iron balconies on the floor above, so the house reads vertically in a way most villas do not. Every bedroom has its own bathroom, which at fourteen guests removes the usual argument entirely. The dining room holds a long dark-wood table for fourteen beneath woven pendant lights, sized to the full house and not to a subset of it. Several living rooms connect through arched passages, giving the group places to break into twos and threes across the day.","bullets":["Seven bedrooms, all en-suite","Seven full bathrooms, one per bedroom","Double-height riad courtyard with Moorish arches","Wrought-iron balconies overlooking the courtyard","Dark-wood dining table seating fourteen","Several living rooms linked by arched passages","Carved plasterwork and tadelakt walls throughout"]},{"section":"outdoors","heading":"Pool, padel, ten thousand meters","body":"The pool sits inside planted gardens with the Atlas Mountains behind it, and a padel court occupies its own corner of the grounds, which is unusual at this size and tends to set the shape of the mornings. Covered terraces are placed in several aspects, so there is shade at every hour and more than one place for the group to eat. Ten thousand square meters is enough land that two parts of a group can be outside at the same time without being in the same conversation. Garden paths link the courtyards to the pool and the court.","bullets":["Private pool set in planted gardens","Padel court on the grounds","Atlas Mountain views to the south","Covered terraces in several aspects","Garden paths linking the courtyards","Ten thousand square meters of private grounds","Outdoor dining under cover"]},{"section":"activities","heading":"Souks, Atlas, padel","body":"Fifteen minutes from the Medina is the sweet spot for a week in Marrakech: the souks, Jemaa el-Fna and the Yves Saint Laurent Museum all work as half days, and the compound is silent when the group gets back. The padel court is the on-site draw and it gets used early, before the heat. The Atlas foothills are thirty-five minutes for a day in the mountains, and excursions there can be arranged before arrival. In the house, wellness treatments and a private chef are both available, and the estate kitchen is set up for full-service dining.","bullets":["Padel on the private court, best early in the day","Half days in the souks and Jemaa el-Fna","Atlas Mountain excursions arranged on request","Yves Saint Laurent Museum fourteen minutes away","Private chef for tagine, couscous and pastilla or international menus","In-villa wellness treatments on request"]},{"section":"staff-service","heading":"Staffed estate kitchen","body":"Start with the kitchen, because it is what separates this estate from a large villa: it is set up for full-service dining, so a private chef works at proper scale here instead of improvising. Moroccan cooking, tagines, couscous and pastilla, or international menus, served at the fourteen-seat table or out on the covered terrace. A cook is part of the full house staff that comes with the estate. Security runs around the clock behind the gate, and our concierge team handles transfers, chef bookings, treatments and the Atlas excursions.","bullets":["Full house staff included, with a cook","Estate kitchen set up for full-service dining","Private chef bookable for Moroccan or international menus","Meals served indoors at the long table or on the terrace","Round-the-clock security behind the compound gate","Private airport transfers arranged by our concierge team"]},{"section":"ideal-for","heading":"Best For","body":null,"bullets":["Two or three families traveling together","Groups who want architecture and not a generic villa","Milestone gatherings sized to a fourteen-seat table","Players who will use a private padel court daily","Travelers who want the Medina at fifteen minutes"]}]}