A B O U T

Riad di Siena is a privately-owned maison d'hôtes — a small traditional Moroccan house, restored room by room over more than twenty years and run by the family who lives in it. Six rooms across two adjoining houses: three around a courtyard with a zellige fountain at the main riad, three at The Douaria annex a few steps away.

The house keeps its original architecture: hand-cut zellige tilework, carved plaster (gebs), painted cedar ceilings (zouak), a rooftop terrace with views over the medina rooftops to the Atlas Mountains. Nothing has been gutted or styled. What was here in the 1700s is mostly still here.

We're a small team. Zahra and the women who keep the riad have been here for years and most guests remember them by name. We cook breakfast every morning on the rooftop, arrange airport transfers, walk new arrivals through the medina the first time, and answer the phone ourselves.

Riad di Siena is part of Slow Morocco, a small family of properties — the riad in Marrakech, a kasbah in the High Atlas, a desert camp in the dunes near Merzouga, and a working farm — designed to be visited slowly, one after the other, on a journey south.

We are happiest when our guests leave feeling more themselves than when they arrived.