Two Fès Medersas
The medersas of Bou Inania and el-Attarine are two of the most impressive sights of Fès, Morocco’s spiritual and cultural capital. Medersas are schools of religious study and are traditionally closed to non-Muslims, as are most mosques, but these two have been restored and converted into museums. Bou Inania has an attached mosque and minaret, [...]
Two Fès Doors
Photographing the doors of Morocco may be a cliché, but it’s a hard one to resist. Here are two painted doors from Fès’s restored palaces — the first from Dar Tazi and the second from Dar Mokri. Hopefully I’m forgiven for loving these!
Fès Medina
Morocco’s first World Heritage site, the Fès medina is a labyrinth of some 9,000 passageways packed with people, workshops, food stalls, stores, homes, water fountains, mosques, medersas, museums and more. It’s an intense and interesting place, somber too. There’s a lot of hassling if you’re a single Western woman, most people do not want to [...]
Fès Festival of World Sacred Music
One of the world’s top cultural and musical events, the annual Fès Festival of World Sacred Music brings together a wide range of performers, artists and intellectuals from around the globe for nine days in June in Morocco’s most historic city. The theme for the 17th festival was “Wisdoms of the World” and the musical [...]
