By participating in the many events scheduled for the year (Festivals, concerts, symposia, moussems …) and by taking the different circuits of the medina you can measure all the cultural wealth of the medieval city. Due to its geographical location, at the crossroads of cultures and civilizations, and strong of its history crossed by Arab-Andalusian influences, Fez has calibrated a diversified culture in all fields: architecture, philosophy and culture. the practice of faith, crafts, gastronomy, music, science …

Built in 789 by Idriss I, Fez is the oldest medieval city in the Muslim world and is today one of the largest medinas among the best preserved in the world. More than 9 000 winding lanes that compose it constitute a plan of urbanism unchanged since XIIème century where the daily life continues to be punctuated by the incessant activity of the craftsmen ….

With the construction of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (circa 857) _ before Paris and Oxford _ Morocco, thanks to Fez, knows an unprecedented intellectual and artistic life. Fes is gradually transformed into a place of cultural reference that attracts people of letters, thinkers (Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Batouta, Ibn Khatib, Ibn Arabi, Averroes, Maimonides …), then with the Hispano-Moorish reflux, artists and artists. artisans from both Andalusia (from where the Andalusian district) and Kairouan, Tunisia (hence the Qaraouiyine neighborhood), and wise merchants, Jews, Muslims and Christians.

Fez is also known around the world for the many events that are scheduled every year: the reputation of the Festival of sacred music of the world is not to be done! … the Festival of Culinary Arts, the Festival of Sufi brotherhoods, the international symposiums …

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