La Mamounia
Art Deco palace hotel set in gardens once gifted by a sultan to his son, centuries before it welcomed Churchill and heads of state.
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About this audio guide
This guide to La Mamounia in Marrakesh follows Winston Churchill, who checked into the garden hotel in 1935, years before becoming Britain's wartime prime minister, and kept writing home about it. You'll hear how the grounds passed from a sultan's gift to his son two centuries earlier into an Art Deco hotel first imagined in 1923, and about the orange trees and Atlas Mountain views that kept drawing Churchill back through the decade. Presidents, film stars and musicians followed him through these gates in the years after.
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