Riad Dar Saba

Riad Dar Saba, also known as Saba's House, sits on Rue Cheikh Mohammed Ben Seddik by Place Amrah, inside the walls of the Kasbah. It is small on purpose: six rooms, each decorated differently, among them suites named for Malcolm Forbes and Barbara Hutton, two of the foreigners whose houses gave this quarter its reputation. The roof terrace is the reason to come. Shaded, it turns 270 degrees over the bay of Tangier, the Kasbah and the medina, and on a clear day across the Strait to Spain. Downstairs there is a lounge with a fireplace, a small library and a piano, and a restaurant cooking Mediterranean. There is a steam room and a sauna, and reception speaks Arabic, French, Spanish, English and Dutch. The Kasbah Museum and the Dar el Makhzen are both within about two hundred metres, which puts you inside the sight rather than near it.