A twelfth-century Almohad olive grove and irrigation basin three kilometres west of the medina, focused on a large reflecting pool and a small green-roofed pavilion built by the Saadians in the sixteenth century. The pool is fed by a 700-year-old gravity-fed system that brings water from the Atlas Mountains. The view of the pavilion with the High Atlas snow line behind it is one of the iconic Marrakesh postcards.
The garden is large, free, and quiet outside Sunday afternoons when local families picnic under the olive trees.