Tourism in Fes

Tourism in Fes

General Information 

Shopping in Fez is very exciting. If you are a fan of the Fez is famous for its leather industries where leather and leather bazaar in the old town is your address, and the tannery (leather manufacturing plants) are still almost intact since it was established in the Middle Ages and had exciting in itself. 

Leather tanning in Fes 

Huge craters filled with liquids very colorful with all the colors. 

Of course, if you made a bunch of mint before boarding the balcony, do not hesitate to take them, Fraúhh leather is very strong, place the mint to avoid the smell and enjoy the view remains unchanged for hundreds of years. 

The Balencih to get there, what a tourist, but to walk from the old town down towards the river, even as soon boy to be closer to you and he knows you're a tourist, and suggests that you take you to the balcony shop to see a view site tanning from above, there do not be afraid and followed to see sight not seen by the eyes, huge pits filled with liquids very colorful with all the colors, and steam billowing around them, while the workers Fabdon Kalogazzam small jumping from hole to another, what a view Sahr.an tanning leather dye and then be in the same location, and methods tannery in Fez is still in the same old ways that were taking place in which six centuries ago, and was the role of an old tannery known as the "House of Gold". 

History and Fez el Bali 

Idris II founded the city in 1205 years ago to be the capital of the state Idrisid in Morocco, and since then has evolved Fez to become the second largest city in Morocco, where with a population of over two million people from the suburbs. Fez has been erected on the right bank of the river Fez, and its geographical today remember the central European cities that were built on the banks of rivers, such as Paris and London. 

Fez old 

The central city of Fez and the capital of Morocco until 1912, when the transfer of the French colonial capital, Rabat. In plain Sais erupt near them tens of freshwater springs from aquifers, where Fez is characterized by abundant waters and abundance, so the water channels are distinguished primarily in the city where the branching of these channels to reach every home, school and mosque. This was the secret of their resilience and strength through the ages. 

Fez and has raised its scientific and economic history of jealousy and the desire to tradition, so that the large Cairo was built in the style of Fez, imitated her doors and divisions and the establishment of the University of Al-Azhar religious is similar to the University of villagers in Fez. The continental climate characterized by very Fez, that any extreme in summer and winter, and the weather is mild in the spring and fall, and then the pleasure roaming in the old city of Fez el Bali, and the discovery of the mystique. Many recommend hiring services of a tour guide at your hotel Ptarifkm the nobility of this part of the Fez. After this guide you can waste as you like in its streets and alleys. 

Reneged on successive Islamic eras Fez a large number of Islamic monuments, and remained the most important, such as the fence and gates eight arched and carved. The number of buildings in the authentic inside the fence to nearly ten thousand and building this huge number compared to the ancient cities in the world, add to four thousand water fountain and seventy kilometers of canals. Can you imagine this? ... As though you walk in the Italian city of Venice, but on solid ground! 

Palaces built by Marinids on the hills surrounding Fez from the north, and antique bunk houses and courtyards and narrow mosaic ceramic fillings, and mosques scattered in the city - all of the signs of beauty in Fez unique. The largest mosques Qarawiyyin great still retains Bmenbrh carved wood. For his part to find a lot of angles and religious schools, but it was not a coincidence choose Fez capital of Islamic culture. The old town annexed to the list of international archaeological actually sponsored by UNESCO. 

Almarstanat still in Fez of the basic attractions, where there were many hospitals and multiplied, and all beautiful and carefully constructed masterpiece to the onlookers. Perhaps a Marstanat Fez is Marstan Faraj record historical precedent when a doctor named Faraj al-Khazraji, a Muslim who left Andalusia and came to Fez, making the musicians playing in front of their patients for recreation and treatment.

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