If Morocco is the gateway to Africa, the medinas are the gateway to Morocco. There is no better way to soak up the local culture than to stay at the Barceló Hotels & Resorts in Morocco before zigzagging down any of the steep streets of its imperial cities. Keeping its limits, the Sahara extends majestically offering landscapes that exist only in the largest desert in the world.

A World Heritage Site since 2012, Rabat was slow to free itself from complexes compared to its neighbors Casablanca, Marrakech or Fez. However, places like the Kasbah of the Udayas –with its Bab el-Kébir gate-, the Traffic Light Platform or its Andalusian gardens are more than a source of cultural pride.

At the other extreme, Marrakech and its main square: Jemaa el Fna, is that changing place that is animated by all kinds of acrobats, magicians and musicians, where one would not even have to blink. Nor is it necessary to do so: from the Barceló Hotels & Resorts in Morocco the stay offers leisurely enjoyment of all the exotic charms of the place.

Although the city does not host any of the emblematic sets of the movie Casablanca, it does have an architecture full of Moorish and art-deco buildings. Staying at the Barceló Hotels & Resorts in Casablanca, near the Hassan II Mosque—the largest in the world after Mecca— is an experience only equal to the peace that entering the Medina inspires.

In the first imperial city of Morocco, the almost intact medina coexists with the mosque of one of the oldest universities in the world. From the Barceló Hotels & Resorts in Fez, the traveler is able to immerse himself in this past and that of the holy city of Moulay Idriss, previously off-limits to foreigners.

The doors of a country of contrasts open to our hotels in Morocco, turning the destination into much more than just a trip.