El Jadida New Destination Of Morocco

These ocher walls beaten by the waves emerge here and there, the minaret of a mosque on the front of a synagogue or a church steeple, a melting pot of religions living together in perfect harmony! Once busy port and trading town. El Jadida has a tradition of hospitality. In the fifteenth century, this anchorage attracted the Portuguese, they are building a thick city walls: Mazagan. Two centuries later released, it becomes the "new". 

It is within the Spanish church Saint-Antoine-de Padua, built in the XVI. Then abandoned, as Jean-Dominique Leymarie has Anchored projects. "I was seduced by this old medina. Off the tourist track, it matches the expectation of today's traveler to discover authentic sites that have retained their original harshness. "This builder-born, a double real talent for decorating, gets to work. And see on the day 

The Iglesia, a hotel of singular charm. The lounges and praise, which to read, have a drink occupy the old nave of the church. The spacious, take place in the adjoining convent. The entire furniture-1930s, 1940s, 1950- was mottled flea Marrakech by Jean-Dominique Leymarie. Former radio adorn the praise in the Atribune, cohorts of desk lamps fifties are dispatched in the rooms, while the vintage claw Knoll, Royère Matégot people or salons. "I am collector of collections," laughs the master of the house, which Entrepose his shots heart with the idea of ​​finding them a unique destiny, even creating a new venue for ... Moreover, two jets pebbles Iglesia, the former American consulate, rundown, he held out his arms. It is now the annex, called the Captaincy. The living room of the consul was converted into a restaurant and some bedrooms have been born there. Within the citadel, it lacked a nice place to take a break during the walk on Ie walkway punctuated with four bastions. Against the door of the Sea-porta Do Mar- where the Portuguese took the wide, has opened coffee do Mar, soon renamed by local humor, Café Omar! In the room or on the terrace and serves exquisite teas, voluptuous ice in Panna and light meals in a jazzy atmosphere.

Source Magazine Coté Sud