Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan
A street circuit where 2,500 concrete barrier blocks back up against the walls of a royal garden — and Formula E cars have screamed through on the same public roads you walk.
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Built along Route de l'Ourika/Boulevard Mohammed in Agdal, this semi-permanent circuit ended a 51-year gap in Moroccan motorsport when the WTCC arrived in May 2009 — the first international race in the country since the 1958 Grand Prix in Casablanca. It has since hosted Formula E's Marrakesh ePrix and is actively discussed as a future Formula 1 venue in Africa.
What to look for
- The 2,500-plus concrete impact blocks lining the track perimeter — walk the circuit boundary and you'll see them stacked barrier-to-barrier
- The paddock area pressed against the walls of the Royal Garden, an odd pairing of motorsport infrastructure and palace grounds
- The pronounced hairpin at one end of what was originally a flat 4.545 km anticlockwise oval before the 2016 redesign halved its length
The circuit is in the Agdal district and only comes alive during race weekends; outside events, the roads return to normal traffic, so check the MGP events calendar before making the trip.
Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan is one of 16 sights worth the detour in Marrakesh, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Marrakesh pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Marrakesh
- Koutoubia MosqueThe 77-metre minaret that likely gave Seville's Giralda its blueprint still defines Marrakesh's skyline nine centuries on.
- Jemaa el-FnaaA square whose name is a dark joke — a sultan's grand mosque, abandoned to plague, went from "Mosque of Tranquility" to "Mosque of Ruination" by popular sarcasm.
- Majorelle GardenA French painter patented his own shade of cobalt blue — you are about to walk inside the canvas.
- Marrakesh StadiumA 45,240-seat arena already stamped by World Cup history — and carrying a design flaw critics spotted on day one.
- Ben Youssef MadrasaOnce the largest Islamic college in North Africa, built to train 800 scholars at a time.
- Menara GardensA reservoir dug in 1157, a two-story pavilion at its edge, and the High Atlas Mountains rising behind it — this is the view Marrakesh is measured against.