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Belly dancing in the "Ryad Raval"

The Ryad Raval restaurant in Barcelona markets exotism. According to the serving staff, the non-Moroccan Barcelonean couple who own it, made their love for Morocco into profitable entertainment. Just like the many French and other Europeans do in the gentrifried centre of Marrakesh, they have transformed their mansion in the old immigrant quarter of Raval into a place where tourists and locals spend a leisure time in constructed oriental luxury. And just like in Marrakesh, they call their mansion a riyad. Theirs serves Moroccan but also Lebanese and other dishes with an oriental feel. The interior decoration similarly combines different styles that together with the music even inspire a late evening hour of belly dancing among our group of European museum workers.