Villa 79

Five-bedroom bohemian villa inside the Royal Palm estate near Marrakech. Terracotta tadelakt walls, hand-carved doors, a sunken living room, a dark-tiled...

Location: Marrakech, Morocco

5 bedrooms, sleeps 10.

Price: From €920 EUR per night

Villa 79 is a five-bedroom villa inside the Royal Palm estate, one of the most private residential addresses in Marrakech. The house is built low and organic around courtyards and garden views, and the craft is the reason to come: deep terracotta tadelakt walls, hand-carved wooden doors, zellige tile work and artisan-woven textiles, with a sunken living room under a carved-wood ceiling and gallery-quality art on the walls. Five bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, and three thousand square meters of gardens and mature olive trees around them. The pool is dark-tiled with floating daybeds on it, and the outdoor table seats ten in the shade. Everything here is a drive, the Medina twenty-five minutes and the airport twenty-two, and that is the trade for an estate this quiet. | Location: Marrakech, Morocco | Bedrooms: 5 | Guests: 10 | Price: From €920 EUR per night | Top Amenities: Private Pool, Wellness Area, House Staff | Best For: Design-conscious couples, Photographers and creatives, Privacy-first travelers

Villa 79 is rooted in Moroccan craft and not borrowed from a design magazine. Deep terracotta tadelakt walls, hand-carved wooden doors, zellige tile work and artisan-woven textiles run through every room, and the architecture stays low and organic, built around courtyards and garden views so the inside and the outside never fully separate. Five bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, sit inside three thousand square meters of gardens and olive trees. The main living room is sunken, piled with oversized cushions under a carved-wood ceiling, and the art on the walls is good enough to stop people on the way past.

Behind the Royal Palm gates

The Royal Palm estate is one of the most private residential addresses in Marrakech, and the entrance is guarded. Past it the road winds through manicured grounds and tall palms before reaching the villa, which is backed by the Royal Palm Golf Club and wrapped in its own three thousand square meters of garden. The Medina is fourteen kilometers and twenty-five minutes south, the airport twenty-two minutes, the Bahia Palace twenty-three. Inside the estate it is green, silent and unhurried, which is precisely what the address buys. Everything beyond the gates is a drive. Guarded entrance to the Royal Palm estate. Jemaa el-Fna and the Medina twenty-five minutes by car. Marrakech Menara airport twenty-two minutes, twelve kilometers. Royal Palm Golf Club a three minute drive. The Royal Palm hotel restaurant three minutes away by car. Bahia Palace twenty-three minutes out. Marjane supermarket fifteen minutes on the Route de Casablanca

Tadelakt and carved wood

The material list is the whole argument for this house. The walls are original tadelakt in deep terracotta, the doors are carved wood sourced from local artisans, the tile work is zellige, and the textiles are woven and not printed. The sunken living room is the center of gravity, with oversized cushions and a carved-wood ceiling above it, and the art through the house is hung with care rather than filled in. Five bedrooms, five bathrooms, one each. A wellness area covers the hours when the sun is at its worst. Five bedrooms, all en-suite. Five full bathrooms, one per bedroom. Sunken living room with a carved-wood ceiling. Original terracotta tadelakt walls throughout. Hand-carved wooden doors and zellige tile work. Wellness area inside the villa. Three thousand square meters of grounds

Dark pool, olive shade

The pool is dark-tiled, so it reads as part of the garden and not as a blue rectangle dropped into it, and floating daybeds sit on the water for the middle of the day. Mature olive trees give the garden its structure and most of its shade, and the dining terrace sits under them with a table for ten. Shaded lounge areas are set apart from the pool so the group can spread out. Three thousand square meters of planting on an already private estate leaves the house effectively unobserved from any angle. Dark-tiled pool with floating daybeds. Mature olive trees through the garden. Outdoor dining for ten under the canopy. Shaded lounge areas away from the pool. Courtyards linking the indoor and outdoor rooms. Three thousand square meters of private garden

Golf, souks, stillness

This is a house people book to slow down in, and the estate supports that: the garden is big enough to disappear into and the pool does most of the work. The Royal Palm Golf Club is three minutes away by car for anyone who wants a round close to the house. The Medina, Jemaa el-Fna and the Bahia Palace are twenty-three to twenty-five minutes, which makes them a deliberate outing. A private chef and spa treatments can both be arranged in the villa, and there is fine dining at the Royal Palm hotel a short drive away. Golf at the Royal Palm Golf Club, three minutes by car. Fine dining at the Royal Palm hotel, three minutes by car. Day trips to the Medina and the Bahia Palace. Spa treatments arranged in the villa. Private chef for tagine, pastilla or international menus. Long afternoons on the floating daybeds

The estate as service

A large part of why people choose this address over a standalone compound is the estate itself: security across Royal Palm runs around the clock, and the gate is staffed before any house is. Inside the villa, full house staff is included. Everything else is booked ahead through our concierge team, and the two worth planning are a private chef, who can cook Moroccan or international food in the villa kitchen, and spa treatments in the house. Transfers run from arrivals to the estate gates, twenty-two minutes from the airport. Full house staff included in the stay. Round-the-clock security across the Royal Palm estate. House staff greet arrivals, check-in from three in the afternoon. Private chef bookable for meals at the villa. Spa treatments arranged by our concierge team. Private airport transfers to the estate gates

Best For

Couples and small groups who care about craft and materials. Photographers and creatives working the interiors. Travelers who want maximum privacy over city access. Golfers based on the estate. Groups of up to ten wanting their own bathrooms