The silence of the entrance courtyard, shaded like a patio, ontrasts strikingly with the exterior. Beyond sculpted railings, a sumptuous central avenue provides a grand perspective of the Domaine and an extraordinary vision – a garden of roses and olive trees stretching as far as the eye can see, and crowned by the Atlas summits beyond. Here and there, outlines of sublime designer houses can be glimpsed through the wavy foliage of hundred-year-old olive trees.

This is the Al-Aïn quarter, the first address at Domaine Royal Palm.