Article: MOROCCAN ROLL; Marrakech was once a favourite with The Beatles - now a new generation of trendsetters have discovered this style oasis.

Byline: LYDIA GARD

Marrakech is hot right now. It's not just the desert sun that is drawing the in-crowd. The labyrinthine streets inside the red-clay city walls of the medina are crawling with the hippest European holidaymakers.

Indeed, the trendy and the bohemian, from Yves Saint Laurent to Led Zeppelin, William Burroughs to The Beatles, have frequented the souks of Marrakech for decades, drawn to the chaos and the pre-industrial handicrafts, the rich antique fabrics and the illicit pipes. Marrakech is a whispered promise of something exotic.

It's like the faraway land of a children's book - snake-charmers and belly dancers wander through the ...

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