The small doorway leads into a huge, 19th-century riad centred around a beautiful courtyard, filled with lemon trees and trickling marble fountains; the edge of the space is taken up by arches that create little nooks to drink, sit, read and stare at the blue sky above.
There was some pushback in 2007/2008 along with a campaign to restore public fountains and demand tap water in restaurants.
"We don't have the bushes, we don't have the fountains, we don't have a realistic look of the White House.
The director of the US secret service has described an elaborate plan to build an $8m replica of the White House in Maryland – complete with fountains, grass and shrubbery – to assist with agent training.
Formerly rubbish-strewn squares are being converted into picturesque gardens, draped in jacaranda and hydrangeas, with fountains and shady corners to sit in, and although there is some concern that Tangier will become as overly-sanitised and developed as Marrakesh, it seems unlikely that the city will change that radically.
Especially when the yeses respond to everything by promising fountains of jam for all, and accuse anyone raising any objections of having no faith in their fellow Scots and being quisling English lackeys (or, occasionally Nazis, as is traditional in political debate).
It has four airy bedrooms, sleeping eight – each filled with plush Moroccan carpets, antique chests and with gorgeous en-suite bathrooms – which open out on to a central, open-roofed courtyard with two fountains.
The town features several world heritage sites among ancient streets with pretty squares and fountains, plus great restaurants, museums and a theatre – a far cry from purpose-built resorts.
On Seventh St, the Grand's pergola flows with gnarled crimson grapevine and its courtyards are dotted with Italianate fountains.
The game invariably winds up at the clubhouse, its entrance flanked by two superb Italian fountains.
On this photo, teenagers gather around the fountains of the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City.
