Do you believe in coincidences? Our story is full of them. We are Silvia and Veronica, both born and raised in Milan, and completely in love with Marrakech, to the point of embarking on the adventure of renovating an ancient riad together. We met when we were both 15 years old; young and full of dreams. We grew up together, and with time became inseparable. But then, as it so often does, life intervened, and we started down different paths.

Still, destiny has a funny way of bringing people back together. A joint-trip to Marrakech and a string of fateful coincidences led us down the path of building a riad together.

We knew exactly what we wanted, and put all of our energy into finding it. But every property we visited seemed to disappoint.

We grew frustrated, and started to think that maybe it wasn’t the right time, that perhaps our beloved “Project Alkemia” should be indefinitely postponed

And then, an unexpected phone call, and it was love at first sight!

The silence, the sense of inner peace and tranquility, the pure energy that the space emanated, immediately won us over. From that moment on, the whole project took off as if it had a life of its own, with this one piece of the puzzle, everything else could easily fall in place.

We like to think that every piece of furniture, every rug, every bit of fabric or decoration that we found together in the markets or hand picked from local artisans’ shops, had all been waiting for an eternity to be chosen, to end up in our riad. What else could it be, then, if not a magical Alkemia?