Dar Azaafaran

Anti Atlas Mountains


This modern information centre is devoted to l'or rouge – red gold, the nickname for saffron – with a small museum, saffron for sale by local cooperatives and a display of the current going rate. There are also a few saffron agricultural tools strewn about. Displays are in French.

Opening hours are not strictly adhered to.


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