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Old Medina Fes El Bali -
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Place Boujloud Square -
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Medina - Souk Routes -
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Fes Tannery -
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Life In Old Medina -
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Medina‘s Bread Ovens -
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Medersa Bou Inania (Bouinania) -
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New Medina Fes El Jedid -
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Palais Royal - Palace -
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Pubblic Gardens -
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Mellah, Cemeteries -
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Kasbah Cherarda, University -
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Fes Quarters -
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On the map is marked: Best pictures of Fes - Fes, the first and simply the queen of the Moroccan Imperial cities, astonishes visitors with its beauty. A walk through the old city, where wealth contrasts with the poverty, give you strong unforgettable emotions. The ancient capital is divided in 3 main areas: the old medina, the new medina and the new town Ville Nouvelle built by French in the 19th century.
On the map is marked: Old Medina Fes El Bali - Nowadays the old medina of Fès el-Bali (Old Fes) is one of the world’s biggest pedestrian medieval town, a huge labyrinth of pedestrian narrow alleys with no cars. Time has seemingly failed to touch the medieval life-style in the old medina. For this reasons, this open-air museum has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.
On the map is marked: Place Boujloud Square - The Place Boujloud Square is the perfect starting point for trips in the old medina, Fes El Bali. You can leave you car outside the walls and begin your adventure.
On the map is marked: Medina - Souk Routes - The tourist souk routes are well signed and provide your first taste to medina, before the deep exploration of the enigmatic labyrinth. The souks or markets are network of covered narrow streets, where you can find vendors of alive chicken, rose petals, heads of goats… they’re strange and curios places.
On the map is marked: Fes Tannery - Fes Tanneries are well-known in Morocco. Showara is the most important Tannery of Fes, it’s divided in 2 areas, the white tanks area used for cleaning of rough leather by ammonia and the coloured tanks area used to the 4-days process of leather painting. From Monday to Saturday people work inside the tanks (I shoot these pictures on Sunday).
On the map is marked: Life In Old Medina - A trip inside the deep medina shows as time hasn’t changed some medieval habits, here kids take water at public fountains because they have no water in their houses, near fountains grow small markets where vegetables, meat and fish are put on the ground.
On the map is marked: Medina‘s Bread Ovens - Women of Medina prepare the bread in their houses by hand, after they carry the dough at the public ovens to bake the bread.
On the map is marked: Medersa Bou Inania (Bouinania) - The Medersa Bou Inania is a pearl, a marvellous masterpiece built in the hearth of the old medina, which bears witness to the gold age of the imperial city.
On the map is marked: New Medina Fes El Jedid - The New Medina, called Fes El Jedid is located few minutes on foot south of the old medina. The Medina is surrounded by impressive walls with marvellous doors.
On the map is marked: Palais Royal - Palace - The huge Palais Royal (Royal Palace) is next to the New Medina, it has a marvellous golden door, but isn’t allowed to visit the Palace.
On the map is marked: Pubblic Gardens - Pubblic Gardens are between the New Medina Fes El Jedid and the Old Medina Fes El Bali.
On the map is marked: Mellah, Cemeteries - The Mellah or Jewish quarter (Ghetto), once a quarter for Jewish killed by Arabs some centuries ago and buried in a white big cemetery.
On the map is marked: Kasbah Cherarda, University - The Kasbah Cherarda once a citadel and fortress, and now a University is located few minutes by foot from both new and old medinas.
On the map is marked: Fes Quarters - Fes is well-known for its medina, where mass-tourism invade the streets, but the city of Fes has also several huge quarters (sometimes very poor quarters). The city has a population of 1 million of people.
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