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Gueliz, Marrakesh — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Gueliz is the Marrakesh district where four museums are recorded, among them the Berber Museum and the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh.
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Where to stay in Gueliz
Not every neighbourhood fits every trip — here's what each one is good for.
A bed in Gueliz puts the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh and the Berber Museum inside an easy walk, which is the whole argument for choosing this quarter over anywhere else on the Marrakesh district roll. The Yves Saint Laurent Museum settles it. Travellers with no interest in the Museum of Islamic Art of Marrakech or the Marrakech Telecommunication Museum will do as well booking elsewhere across the city.
Few places to stay in Gueliz — most visitors book in Marrakesh nearby.
About Gueliz
What are the main landmarks in Gueliz?
Four museums, one district. The Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh is the name that travels furthest, but the Berber Museum, the Museum of Islamic Art of Marrakech and the Marrakech Telecommunication Museum are all filed to the same quarter, so museums make up the entire inventory the record gives Gueliz. Counting stops at four.
What the register grants here is gallery space rather than ruins or gardens.
What is the history of Gueliz?
Ask when Gueliz began and the file offers nothing. Gueliz comes to the register as a district of Marrakesh rather than as a settlement with a charter of its own, and the institutions attached to it, the Berber Museum among them, carry the dates that the quarter itself does not. Marrakesh holds the older story.
A museum district is what the modern listing describes.
Where is Gueliz?
Marrakesh sets Gueliz on its district roll, the quarter holding the Museum of Islamic Art of Marrakech and the Marrakech Telecommunication Museum.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Gueliz?
Marrakesh: a base across the wider city with the Gueliz museums a ride off.
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Updated August 2026