Ouarzazate or the gateway opening to the magic of the desert. At the crossing of the superb Dades and Draa valleys, this previous French garrison town has for scenery the snow-capped Atlas mountains and the Sahara dunes of sand. Splendid surroundings very demanded by film directors and enhanced by a first-class tourist infrastructures in the middle of pise-walled villages, oases and palm groves. Starting point for many raids and rallies but also a privileged halt while visiting the kasbahs, palaces of adobe with ochre walls and crenellated towers, precious vestiges of another world, Ouarzazate has known how to make the most of its exceptional site.

Rising and falling with the geometric rhythms of an ancient kasbah, Dar El Fen with its slender line...