Riad is a traditional Moroccan house. The translation of riad is garden in Arabic. Riad means two important notions: house & closed garden. Through centuries these riads were for really important & wealthy character.




These characters took a part of them land to create a paradisiacal garden.
With Andalusia influences, these gardens have a lot of trees, smelly plants like jasmine or roses and in middle a fountain.
There are also olive trees, orange trees and palm trees.
Muslim thinking presents the heaven like a beautiful garden for the eternity.

Therefore through centuries, these riads with them garden was reception houses for important & wealthy characters.

Buying a riad, you will deep into a harmony life and live a sweet oriental dream.



Architecture

Within these reception houses we can find living rooms with highly plaster or wooding painting ceiling.
In these living rooms, we can also find a beautiful fireplace.
These rooms opened directly on the corridor (patio) have also big wooden painting doors (Al-huha).
On the floor, zellij (little tiles) draw multicolour painting.
Sometimes in corridor, we can see a “B'hou” entire opened room on the corridor.

Closed to riad, exist sometimes a private house for the staff or for the owner's riad with a hammam.