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The blue Bab Boujloud gate leading into the Fes medina

Fès-Meknès, northern Morocco

Fes

Morocco's spiritual and intellectual heart — a vast walled medina of craftsmen, madrasas and tanneries, best explored with a local guide.

Fes is the oldest of Morocco’s imperial cities and long its cultural and religious centre. Its walled old town, Fes el-Bali, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the largest car-free urban areas in the world — thousands of lanes where donkeys still carry goods past mosques, fountains and workshops.

Within the medina stand Al Quaraouiyine, founded in 859 and widely regarded as one of the oldest continuously operating universities in the world, the richly decorated Bou Inania and Attarine madrasas, and the famous tanneries, where hides are still dyed in stone vats. Beyond the walls lie Fes el-Jdid, with the Mellah and the Royal Palace, and panoramic viewpoints over the whole city.

The medina is best discovered with a local guide, and our longer tours include one. Fes is also the closest imperial city to the Sahara and the starting point for our tours to Merzouga and across the desert to Marrakech.

Tours that visit Fes

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