Tuesday, August 19, 2014

La Mamounia In Moroccan

Calm and grand, La Mamounia deploys its splendor with discretion and elegance. A lifestyle both warm and refined power of architecture, rich materials, flavor cooking, quiet gardens, and enchanting sounds mundane.
By placing the sensory discovery at the heart of its values, La Mamounia promises unique experiences and unusual: the experiences of inspiration, excitement, glamor and elegance ...
Magic, dreams, enchantment but service excellence, perfection of detail are the promises of La Mamounia.


I -Accommodation:
 






- 136 rooms
- 71 suites, 6 "Signature" suites
- 3 riads equipped with 3 bedrooms, Moroccan salons, private pool, terraces ...

services:
- 4 restaurants,
- 5 bar
- Tearoom
- Bookshop
- Vegetable garden
- Banquet and conference
- Spa
- Gym.

II - gardens                                
Compounds of olive trees, palm trees, roses, jacaranda, orange, Aleppo pines, bougainvillea, oleander RoseSet and an avenue of 80 cactus gardens occupy an area of ​​eight hectares10, within an area of ​​five hectares Total6, and are maintained by 70 gardeners. The minaret of the Koutoubia and the snow-capped Atlas Mountains are visible beyond the gardens.             
  


III - history
The walls surrounding the site, belonging to the caliph Abd al-Mou'min, the first Almohad from the twelfth century1.
In the eighteenth century, what is now La Mamounia is backed by the walls of the old city garden, belonging to the Alawite Sultan Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah and his wife Lala Fatima. He designed the gardens for his yarn2 Prince Mamoun, and offered him as a wedding gift. The name "Arsal Mamoun el" is then given by the prince1, name becomes "Arsat Mamounia." An efficient irrigation system is present.

     _ The first building to be followed by several others, the Pavillon de la Mamounia, later called the "Palace of La Mamounia," appears in the nineteenth century and looks like "townhouse laid open désert3"; that is destroyed around 1922.
But the idea of a grand hotel germ to 1920 The following year, Albert Laprade sign the first plans for the future constructionN 1, followed by a second course designed by Robert Hare; both projects are unsuccessful. In 1923, architects Henri Prost and Marchisio lead the early work of the hotel and its fifty rooms on one floor, on behalf of the National Railways (ONCF), the Project Manager. Jacques Majorelle decorates salonN 2 that bears his name. In 1925, the hotel, with simple décor and modern, and occupying a central building with a single wing named "Wing Koutoubia" opens. This takes the surname of the female MamouniaN 3 Initially, the place is usually reserved for long stays there comes with its furniture.

Scenes of The Man Who Knew Too Much Hitchcock are tournées4. Erich von Stroheim it comes to trails. By the 1950s, the hotel is regularly used for filming movies.

On the spur of King Hassan II, André Paccard "decorator of the King" renovating the hotel in five moisN 4 in the late 1980s, with a mixture of decorative art déco5 and Moroccan tradition, and adding a fourth upstairs, an additional wing and a casino1. The hotel will have 200 rooms. Fourteen years later, Alberto Pinto who undertakes a new rénovation6; since the end of World War II, during which time the hotel doubles the number of its rooms to reach the number 100 and is seen having a second wing is the fifth renovation that account The Mamounia7.

Like his father 20 years earlier, King Mohammed VI breathes rehabilitation places: La Mamounia closed in 2006.2 The furniture, chairs, tables, lamps, linens, and even carriages were auctioned three years later in the first half of 20098.
last renovation

September 2009, after three and 120 million euros of work, La Mamounia is opening its portes9 on atmosphere while chiaroscuro and halftones, conducted by Jacques Garcia6, decorator known among others for its completion of the Hotel Costes years to Paris10. It reconstructs the lounges before renovation years 198011, and adopt a new decoration in Moorish style. Consisting of more than 200 "rooms" N 5 and a significant increase in tarifs12, the hotel sees its enlarged pool, and 2,500 m2 are assigned to teach in Spa5 Shiseido4,13 with several treatment rooms, two pools ozone and three hammams.
The palace employs about 800 people in total and now presents a literary prize

               


  link :http://www.mamounia.com  
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