Marrakech Events
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Marrakech Popular Arts Festival
There is never a dull moment in this teeming city designed to
inflict sensory overload, but during the summer Popular Arts
Festival, Marrakech is more frenzied and alive than ever, the
already-packed streets even more crowded with an abundance of
tourists and Moroccans avid for fun. Artists, craftsmen, vendors,
musicians, acrobats, fire-swallowers and dancers hold performances
in every corner of the city, with the centre of the action at the
ruined 16th-century Badi Palace, once the heart of the powerful
Saadian Dynasty. One of the most popular features is the
'fantasia', a choreographed trick horse-riding spectacle held each
evening in a field near the Bab Jdid just outside the city walls.
For more information contact the Morocco Tourist Office on +212
(0)37 681 531/532/533 or
admin@tourism-in-morocco.com
Venue: Various, but mainly Badi Palace and Djemma el Fna;
Date: 17 - 25 July 2009;
Website: www.marrakechfestival.com
