Doors 334 – Doors and the gardens of Anima, Marrakesh, Morocco, January 2025 (Part XIV)
On our way home from the High Atlas mountains, we called in at the Anima gardens, an extraordinary place where a stunning collection of plants meets the creative artistic imagination of multi-media artist André Heller. This garden was one of the great highlights of our trip to Marrakesh. An oasis (almost literally) of cool shade in the middle of the parched arid landscape which was full of surprises around every corner.
The imaginative sculptures in the garden seemed to be perfectly at home despite their bright colours and quirkiness. The place was a feast for the eyes and a haven for birds and insects too. This was genuinely one of the best gardens I have visited in the world, and utterly unexpected. A must if visiting Marrakesh.
It is another week in which doors play second-fiddle to their surroundings, but I hope you enjoy the ensemble:
It has been fun digging out these pictures of the Anima garden, and I have shared far more than I intended for the purposes of Thursday Doors (a bit of a show-and-tell I’m afraid). Back to the city next time. 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.
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What a fantastic post Scooj! Love love love the plants and doors! And that view! 😍 Really stunning.
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Thank you very much. I simply had to include the view – taken from the roof of the cafe.
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Great doors, lovely gardens, interesting sculptures
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Thank you Sheree
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Fantastic post and love the doors (entrance door, service door, and the fancy wrought iron door). I thoroughly enjoyed the artistic flare of the garden sculptures and the whimsy in many of the interpretations and placements…oh, those eyes…mesmerizing!
So many wonderful photos, I struggled (in a good way) selecting a favorite. But I am partial to that beautiful wide-angle view of the High Atlas from the garden at Anima. Thank you, Stephen, for this virtual travel essay of Marrakesh.
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Thank you Suzette. Yes, a travel essay told through doors – a few more sets of doors now and the essay will be complete.
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Most excellent. You are welcome, Stephen. Cheers.
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I love than door at the entrance. The door within a door is good enough, but the shape of the large door and the scene behind the open smaller door makes for a wonderful photo. I’m glad you included the garden photos. One looks like a desert, others like a seaside park and the one with the mountains in the background is totally different. I can see why you enjoyed this visit. The sculptures are very impressive, too.
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Thanks Dan. The sculptures shown were only a fraction of those in the garden.
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Wow.
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What a lovely collection of doors and sculptures. Morocco looks like a lovely place to visit.
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Thank you. Our trip there was so full of great surprises.
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I’ll check out your other posts on Morocco. We plan to visit sometime next year.
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Prepare for lots of doors!
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I’m looking forward to it ☺️ so I have enough for Thursday doors.
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What a lovely and beautiful post.
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Thank you.
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Glad you mentioned that last door was iron. I would have first thought it wooden. This tour was lovely!
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Do you know what – on reflection and re-examination of the picture, I think you might be right, it looks wooden and not iron to me too. Well-spotted.
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I’m definitely not an expert! lol Beginners luck?
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