Private Tour: Customize your Perfect Day in Fez With a Local Expert Guide

Today it is possible to see a display of 8,000 pieces of artillery from Makina, the arsenal built by Moulay Hassan I. Enter the Fès el- Bali through the symmetrical horse shoe arches at Bab Boujeloud (The Blue Gate). Fès -el Bali, best characterized as a sea of rooftops embellished with minarets and domes, is too narrow for cars. Aside from walking, donkeys and mules are still the best way to travel within the cities old walls.

Make your way to the Karaouiyine Mosque. Located in the Karaouiyine quarter, the Mosque is one of the oldest in the world and functioned as the first university in Morocco.

most important buildings including Dar el- Magana, a fourteenth century water clock and Zaouia el Tijaniya, containing the tomb of Ahmed el Tijani, who spread his infamous doctrine Tariqq el- Tijaniya (The Way) throughout Morocco.

kers) then browse the souks selling henna, slippers, caftans, silks, jewelry and spices.

Within the foundouk’s three floors is the Musée de Bois, which displays carved doors from the Bou Inania Medersa.

( On your request your guide can suggest some of the best restaurants in the town for lunch). After lunch we will visit the Musée Dar el- Batha to view the great collection of pottery, leather-work, wood, books and manuscripts from the nineteenth century.

n quarter, a residential part of the medina laced with monuments. Our last part of the tour will take you into the Fès el Jedid, a kasbah which functioned as Morocco’s administrative center until 1912. Explore the royal palace and many interesting quarters including the Moulay Abdalllah Quarter, the Mellah (Jewish Quarter) and a little farther down south lies Ville Nouvelle (The New Quarter).

Medersa Bou Inania: An (Islamic school) founded by Abu Inan Faris that is highly decorated from floor to ceiling. The medersa is one of the few religious places in Morocco that is accessible to non-Islamic tourists.

The Kairaouine Mosque became the home of the West's first university and the world's foremost center of learning at the beginning of the second millennium.

g spiritual and educational centers of the Muslim world and is considered the oldest continuously operating institution of higher learning in the world.

Founded by Sultan Abou Saïd in the 14th century as a students' dormitory, it is attached to the Kairaouine Mosque.

driss II, who ruled Morocco from 807 to 828 and founded the city of Fès for the second time in 810. Dar Batha: A Hispano-Moorish palace dating from the end of the 19th century that houses admirable collections of traditional art from Fès.