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   Bab Bou Jeloud

   The main gate into the old city of Fes, built by the French in 1913 in Moorish style and tiled blue on the outside and green within — the colours of the city and of Islam. Almost every walk through the medina starts here.

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   Andalusian Mosque

   A mosque founded in 859 in the quarter settled by refugees from Andalusia, and one of the oldest in Morocco. Its monumental gate, added in 1209, has a carved cedar canopy over the door.

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   Ibn Danan Synagogue

   A synagogue in the mellah whose first building went up in the 17th century and which has been ruined and restored several times since. The most recent restoration reopened it in 1999; the painted ark, the bimah and the mikveh in the cellar can all be seen.

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   Medina of Fez

   The historic centre of Fes, a World Heritage Site since 1981. Its oldest quarter, Fes el-Bali, was founded by the Idrisid dynasty between 789 and 808, and in 1276 the Marinids added a new town to the west, Fes el-Jdid.

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   Dar Batha

   A palace begun for Sultan Hassan I in the 1890s and now the museum of Fassi craft: blue-and-white pottery, carved cedar from the Qarawiyyin, astrolabes and Berber rugs, arranged around an Andalusian garden of tall trees.

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   Bab Mahrouk

   The historic main western gate of the old walled city, going back to 1204, at the northwest corner of the Bou Jeloud square. Its name means the gate of the burned, from the rebels whose bodies were displayed on it, and Talaa Kebira, the medina's main street, began here.

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   Al-Wad School Mosque

   A mosque in the medina whose name means the mosque of the river, built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century on the site of a fourteenth-century madrasa of the same name. Fes has some three hundred and fifty mosques; this is one of the older reused sites among them.

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   Bab Al-Kissa Mosque

   A medieval mosque beside the northern gate of the old city, with a madrasa attached and a terrace that looks down over the roofs of the medina towards the tanneries.

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   Al-Diwan Mosque

   A mosque near the eastern end of Talaa Kebira, founded by the Alawi sultan Moulay Slimane during his reign between 1792 and 1822 — a period when several new neighbourhood mosques were built into the already dense medina.

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    Marinid Tombs

    The ruined tombs of the Marinid sultans on the hill north of the old city, roofless and stripped of their marble. People climb to them at the end of the day for the view over Fes and the sound of the call to prayer rising out of it.

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   Dar al-Makhzen Fez

   The king's palace in Fes, begun in 1276 when the Marinids founded the royal city, though most of what stands is Alaouite. Visitors get no further than the square outside, where seven brass doors are set in tiled and carved surrounds.

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   Mellah of Fez

   The Jewish quarter of Fes el-Jdid, laid out beside the royal palace in the mid-15th century and among the oldest mellahs in Morocco. Few Jewish families remain, but the balconied houses, the Ibn Danan synagogue and the hillside cemetery still stand.

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   Funduq al-Najjariyyin

   An eighteenth-century caravanserai in the middle of the medina, built around a courtyard where merchants stabled animals below and slept above. It now holds a museum of woodwork, with a rooftop café over the square and its fountain.

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   Borj Nord

   A fort at Fez in Morocco. The Saadians built it in 1582 on the model of sixteenth-century Portuguese forts; it is the largest of the works ringing the city and reflects European military architecture of the gunpowder age.

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   Moulay Abdullah Mosque

   A mosque and royal burial ground at the centre of the palace city, built by the Alaouite sultan whose name it carries. Several later members of the dynasty are buried beside him.

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   The Great Mosque of New Fez

   The Friday mosque of the royal city, built about 1276 when the Marinids laid out Fes el-Jdid and the oldest building in that quarter.

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   El-Jamai Palace

   A mansion of the 1870s built by a grand vizier near the northern gate, converted into a hotel in 1919 and much used by writers and diplomats. It closed in 2014 for a restoration that has run for years.

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   Mnebhi Palace

   A palace of the early twentieth century on the Talaa Sghira, richly decorated in carved plaster and zellij. The treaty that made Morocco a French protectorate was signed in it in 1912.

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   Bab Ftouh

   The main southeastern gate of the old walled city, through which caravans came in from the Sahara. The largest cemetery in Fes spreads down the slope outside it.

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    Kasbah An-Nouar

    A walled quarter within the medina of Fes, built as a military enclosure and known as the citadel of flowers. Its gate and much of the wall survive, with housing inside.

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