Fez
Overview
Fez in Morocco is an exotic place that will enchant you with its ancient heritage, colorful noisy markets and beautiful landscape. The imperial city is the capital of traditional Moroccan culture. Fès measures the symbolic heartbeat of the country. It is home to innumerable crafts, spices, and mosques, that it is quite easy to be lost in it.
Green - the color of Islam - is also the color of Fès, endlessly repeated on its tiles and doors.
Fes is a cradle of knowledge, for which its superb medersas are a flamboyant symbol.
Founded shortly after the Arabs exploded across North Africa and Spain, Fès quickly became the country's religious and cultural centre, shaped by each of the great dynasties and by its population's roots in Muslim Spain and the Arab east.
Fez is the medieval capital of Morocco, and a great city of high Islamic civilization. Fez has the best-preserved old city in the Arab world, the sprawling, labyrinthine medina of Fes el-Bali, which is incidentally also the world's largest car-free urban zone.
Attractions:
Fez is one of the most fascinating cities in the world; it is so diverse that each individual will find something or the other to do here. There are countless places to visit in Fez, the intellectual capital of Morocco. From gardens to forts, museum to universities and mosque to medersas all are set beautifully in this enchanting city of Fez.
Below are just a few tourist places:
- Ibn Danan Synagogue
- Nejjarine Museum
- Zaouiya of Sidi Ahmed al-Tijani
- Museum of Andalusian Music
- Water Clock, part of the Bou Inania complex on Talaa Kibeera
- Cherableeyeen Mosque
- Royal Palace
- Merenid Tombs
- Hammams in Fez`
Other sightseeing are:
• Souks:
The souks would lead to the famous tanneries of Fez where the worlds softest of leather is manufactured and this is one of the oldest of arts here.
• Kairaouine Mosque and University:
There are most magnificent of palaces here in Fez, the holy places with green roofs and the beautiful piece of architecture that is Kairaouine Mosque.
• Besides these one will rarely find a place that is devoid of shops. There are shops for almost all commodities and there is simply no dearth of variety.
Fez has an atmosphere that is shadowy; it seems as if it is loaded with secrets but this is perhaps the most attractive and captivating point of the land.
