Doors 322 – Doors of Marrakesh, Morocco, January 2025 (Part III)
This week’s selection of doors were taken in the backstreets in the southern part of the Medina. Front doors are often quite fancy and elaborate, and might be the only sign that there is a dwelling at all. Many houses don’t even have windows facing out onto the street, and so the door becomes an important statement.
The narrow labyrinthine streets area wonderful pinky red colour, but quite imposing and stark, punctuated by these amazing doors. Occasionally you get to peek behind a door that might be open or ajar, and a beautiful, colourful, often tiled interior awaits.
This selection includes a range of different styles and sizes of doors, each one special in its own way. I hope you enjoy them:
More of the same next time, although I hope to provide a bit more context around these doors to provide more of a sense of place. While these backstreets were generally fairly quiet, some of the more touristy places were so full of bustle, and I hope to get this across in posts to come. That’s it for now, have a great weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s weekly Thursday Doors post.
Natural adventures 
Rustic and very charming! Great doors.
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Thank you.
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I’m beginning to think a trip to Marrakesh might be warranted on the strength of its stock of interesting doors.
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If you do go, make it a winter trip – it can get unbearably hot from about March onwards.
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Thanks for the tip
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Excellent tour once again this week of Marrakesh, Stephen.
I enjoyed your description of the doors and the mystery implied behind each. Superb captures all. Love the tiled entrance: the one with the cute cats lounging…awesome. and the door of Riad Les Rêves de Marrakech.
I love too the homespun charm of the doors where the owners clearly made the best of the entryway space and what they had at hand, for example, the metal door with the potted plant.
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I look forward to your analysis of these doors, and you are pretty much spot on as always. The door with the cats was my favourite for sure. I think I might have to do a sub-section on Marrakesh cats in one of this series of posts.
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You are welcome, Stephen. Thank you!
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These are all great doors, Steve. I was thinking I’d never be able to choose a favorite but the one with the two cats steals the show – it’s their way. I like the way some of the doors are decorated while some are set in a decorative entrance, and some share both features.
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Thanks Dan – the cat door was my favourite too.
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I’m sure he/she expects that from us.
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If you get some odd comments, it’s my fault. I featured this in a small contest of sorts.
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Interesting, I’m curious.
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I loved the tiled framed doors and those with a unique shape to them. They are all so neat and different from the doors I see here in my country.
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Different to most places I would think.
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