ATLANTIC PALACE AGADIR GOLF THALASSO & CASINO RESORT

Once there was sand, dunes and shrubs on seven hectares of land located 300 meters from the sea in the bay of Agadir. A man bought it. He carried in him the dream of giving the city of Agadir a wealth of heritage by creating a rare hotel complex that combines the traditional culture of Morocco with international comfort.
This man of culture, open to innovative ideas and in love with the land, from a large family whose deep roots are anchored in religion, gave his time, his intelligence, his knowledge of people and cultural wealth of his country so that the dream becomes reality.
Conception of the work
There begins the story of the Atlantic Palace. Construction began in the 90s and lasted nearly eight years. The project then brought together men of great talent, including an exceptional artist, a maallem (master craftsman) from Marrakech, a veritable Michelangelo of Arab-Moroccan art and quality craftsmen. All of them have a common goal: to carry out a majestic work and to remain faithful to the work.
The general administration of the estate was entrusted to Prince MOULAY SOULEIMANE, son of the founder of the Atlantic Palace.
When the dialogue was established with the Moroccan architect chosen to design and carry out this project, Mourad Ben BAREK, it was therefore not only a question of creating a hotel with international standards which offers visitors all the comforts of modern Western life but rather of translating in terms of architecture, the vision of its spiritual father: a hotel which encourages, as soon as you cross the threshold, a change of scenery then the feeling of accessing an oasis of relaxation.
A place that helps to get rid of daily worries by the astonishment aroused by the beauty of the lounges or by the conviviality created around the patios of greenery at the threshold of the rooms. A place where the presence of a vast palm grove, flower gardens, shaded arcades arouse calm and meditation through the shade they provide.
An architectural ensemble conducive to serenityThe atmosphere thus created, without rupture of harmony between the intimacy of the rooms, the gardens and the public places, will then give the traveler the pleasure of existing. For this, it was necessary to physically separate the reception and catering parts from the rest of the hotel, in order to avoid any interference between the life of the hotel and its guests. This approach led the architect to reconstruct a medina in the southern Moroccan style in ocher and white colors, erected like a fortress enhanced by crenellated towers.
Like the medina, the social space is privileged because the conviviality of the neighborhood is essential , it is the relationship between the habitat and the environment. To respond to this, the architect designed a set of houses whose design is a matter of chance cubism, linked together by shaded alleys as in a medina and by multiple patios in the spirit of Moroccan riads. The spirit of the place lies in this harmony: a green space where you can hear the song of birds and the protective shade of the arcades, conducive to meditation, in front of each residential door.
Facing the housing space, that of public places where everything is designed with the magnificence of traditional monumental architecture. The canons of Arab-Moroccan aesthetics entered the scene a little later in the fitting out of the interior decorations of the hotel’s reception areas when a master craftsman, holder of the secrets of geometric art, was called upon. and the cosmic universe of Moroccan art, the maalem EL KHOU who produced the masterpieces of this extraordinary hotel.
Built in homage to the culture of Morocco, this hotel is both in the past and in the present, a hotel which on January 19, 2000 entered a millennium of hospitality.