Sunday, 31 July 2011

Fes

Considered the spiritual center of Morocco. Spirituality doesn't appear on the photos, of course. I spent two hours, without knowing it, at the zawiya of Mulay Idris tomb. I didn't take any pics, I didn't think about it.
What else then? The Karawiyyin, considered the oldest university in the world. Like many things in Morocco, it's a female foundation, created by a heiress of a rich merchant family, Fatima al-Fahri. The mosque, like all the places of worship in Morocco, closed to non-Muslim tourists.








The souk full of curiosities and oddities.

Selling camel meat.


Bottles containing rose water (?).



Pastilla, a kind of dough fried like this.



Wool.




The famous tanneries, looking colorful from upstairs, but exhausting for those who work in them.

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