A Little Guide to Make Your Fez City Tour a Prosperous Travel Experience

Morocco is well known for its historic imperial cities. Fez is the oldest and the most impressive one among. The old town or medina is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to the oldest university in the world. It has earned itself a reputation as Morocco’s capital on several different occasions, an important center of trade and learning. It is also famed for its myriad medieval streets; a wonderland of vibrant color, sound, scent, and much more awaits vacationers from around the world.

How to Get There

You have several options to get to Fez. You can use train travel as it is reliable and safe in Morocco, and the stations are well connected to many of the country’s biggest cities, including Tangier, Marrakesh, Casablanca, and Rabat. Alternatively, you can use long-distance bus companies that offer a cheaper way to travel between Morocco’s leading destinations. The city also has Fès–Saïs Airport (FEZ) facilitates you arrive by air. The best way to explore Fez after your arrival is on foot as no vehicles are permitted to move within the medina. However, you can employ the services of a petit-taxi(the small red cars) to move from one place to another.

Where to Stay

Fez is also known for its best accommodation for an authentic staying experience. You can book a few nights in a riads located in the historic medina. Riads are traditional homes transformed into boutique hotels. It has airy courtyards and a small number of luxurious rooms make you very comfortable. The Riads are the masterpiece of Moroccan tile work contains a small swimming pool and a lovely garden with a magnificent rooftop terrace to view beautiful views of several terraces.

Where to Eat

Fez is also known for its unique restaurants and eateries filled with enormous culinary treasure. It is where you always expect something special and served with exclusive Moroccan favorites with flair against a breathtaking medina backdrop.

Key attraction

Chaouwara Tanneries: The oldest and largest of the traditional tanneries in Fez’s is the Chaouwara Tannery. It is Fez. It is famous for its classic leather production methods since medieval times. Here, skins are cured in vast vats filled with archaic ingredients (including cow urine, quicklime. turmeric, poppy, mint, and indigo, and pigeon feces), and then laid out to dry in the sunshine. The smell of ammonia and rawhide can be overwhelming, but the sight of the multi-colored vats filled with dye in the central courtyard should not be missed. Have a glimpse of the colorful leather shops built into the surrounding walls for a bird’s-eye view of the action in the morning. The rainbow colors of the traditional dye vats are worth capturing some memorable photos in the morning.

Discover Military History at Borj Nord: Borj Nord is a fortress built in 1582 as part of the walled fortifications boasts an essential point of attraction that depicts the splendid city views. It also homes to a unique museum that includes an extensive collection of some of the fascinating weapons used in past wars. It gives an essential insight into Morocco’s military history as well. There are over 5,000 weapons on display, spanning a range of periods. It includes everything from jewel-encrusted daggers to the 12-ton cannon used in the 16th-century Battle of the Three Kings.

Kairaouine Mosque—The Kairaouine Mosque in Fez is the second-largest mosque in Morocco! Placed deep into the heart of the medina, the Kairaouine Mosque is one of Africa’s largest mosques and probably the oldest continuously run university in the world! It was established dates from 956 and is the oldest Islamic monument in Fez. It is also renowned for its library, the earliest and most important library in the world. It also known to be the oldest surviving libraries in the world- kept 9th-century Qur’an amongst its volume tomes. Quaraouiyine Mosque is arguably the city’s most famous building. The Kairaouine seems as the holiest mosque in Morocco and is spacious enough to accommodate 20000 people at a time! Non-Muslims are not allowed to the mosque, and they can content themselves by viewing the mosque from the outside.

Fes el-Bali: Fez’s old town, or medina (Fes el-Bali), is a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized as one of the best-preserved historic cities of the Arab-Muslim world. It is also one of the world’s most significant urban pedestrian zones, filled with narrow streets, active and lively squares, and marketplaces lined with shops whose interiors resemble a big treasure of Aladdin! The excellent way to explore is to get lost within its street.

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