{"id":653,"date":"2010-02-10T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:35:33","slug":"marrakech-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/marrakech-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Marrakech Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magical, mysterious, marvellous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/marrakech-map.html\">Marrakech<\/a>, Morocco\u2019s third largest city is a travellers paradise, where pavement snake charmers perform alongside potion peddlers, dancers and acrobats. Often called the \u201cRed City\u201d, Marrakech gets its name from the Berber words mur n akush meaning \u201cLand of God\u201d, and it had been a constant cause of fighting between various Berber tribes for many centuries after being founded by the Berber Amoravids in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> century. Marrakech has the biggest traditional market (souk) in Morocco and its Old Town \u2013 the Medina is the historic centre of the city with a maze of winding alleys, artisans workshops and saints shrines, the Jemaa el Fna is its celebrated square, a hive of activity both day and night. Popular as a tourist destination Marrakech experiences some wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/marrakech-weather.html\">weather<\/a> right through the year. Marrakech has a population of just over one million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magical, mysterious, marvellous Marrakech, Morocco\u2019s third largest city is a travellers paradise, where pavement snake charmers perform alongside potion peddlers, dancers and acrobats. Often called the \u201cRed City\u201d, Marrakech gets its name from the Berber words mur n akush meaning \u201cLand of God\u201d, and it had been a constant cause of fighting between various Berber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[493,494],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}