Riad dei colori

Forty paces off Derb El Hammam in the Laarousse quarter, Riad dei colori occupies a restored courtyard house whose tiled fountain and citrus tree anchor the ground floor beneath a carved cedar staircase. Rooms open onto the patio rather than a corridor, keeping traffic noise from the medina's souks outside entirely.

Breakfast is taken on the rooftop terrace, with the Koutoubia minaret visible above the surrounding rooflines. Jemaa el-Fnaa lies roughly ten minutes on foot through the northern medina lanes, a workable base for travellers who prefer walking to taxis.