Dar Gabriel

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Dar Gabriel is a beautifully restored riad hotel in Chefchaouen, northern Morocco, with seven bedrooms all ensuite.

Downstairs is a sitting room heated by a wood burning stove, a restaurant sized kitchen, and intimate dining room unified by the exact and simple geometry of the square riad space.

The views from the top of the riad are the jumble of medina roofs with the pine and cedar clad Rif mountains rising behind the town, their ridges and valleys folding into the distant south and west.

Accommodation Information

Four bedrooms on the middle floor are linked by a cedar landing opening down to the riad floor and fountain, and up to three tiers of roof terraces, three more bedrooms, another kitchen and a chill out space.

Location Information

There is nowhere in such proximity to Europe that so profoundly opens a window onto another world. The mountain town of Chefchaouen, Morocco, just two hours drive from the straits of Gibraltar is that place – a perfect window of North Africa -living vibrant proof that even a long stones throw from the homogenized western world an ancient and exotic magic abides.

Leave your car or taxi outside the city walls and enter the lime washed blue medina on foot via the gateway called Bab Souk. Three minutes walk past spices, Argan oils and cosmetics, baskets, fruit and sweet stalls and you arrive at Dar Gabriel. Superficially you might be on a film set, but Chaouen goes much deeper. Give it time and it will open your heart and move your soul.