Boasting both picturesque architecture and mild climate, the small village of Azrou was built at a height of about 1250 metres by its first inhabitants, the Berbers. The town is known for its Kasbah, built by Moulay Ismaïl in 1684 and its famous place … Mohammed V, housing a large handicrafts centre. A little further away in the surroundings stretches the cedar grove famous for being undoubtedly the most beautiful forest in the Kingdom and the best maintained.