PHOTO TAKEN 07JUN01, Morocco's traditional guesthouses in the red-walled city of Marrakesh attrac.., 2001-06-08 (photo)

PHOTO TAKEN 07JUN01, Morocco's traditional guesthouses in the red-walled city of Marrakesh attract a rising number of well-heeled travellers, looking for special holidays where they get a treatment worthy of sultans.The guesthouses, known as Riads, all look inwards and have a large courtyard centred with a fountain and surrounded with four planted squares in each corner. The hustle and bustle of the Medina and scorching heat of the outside transform into exotic peacefullness and freshness pleasurably disturbed by the twiterring of birds. Owner of guesthouse La Maison Arabe in Marrakesh, Prince Fabrizio Ruspoli, stands on one of his Riad's balconies. Picture taken 7 June 2001.