- Fez is one of the cities "flagship" of North Africa .
Fez
is one of the oldest cities in Morocco. IDRISS I was the first founder of this city that would become its capital. In 789, he built the city of Andalusia. (Area Andalusian today). His son Idriss II took the city of Andalusia as its capital, but in 808, he added two cities, one on the right bank, giving it the name of ADWAT Andalusian, and one on the left bank of ADWAT Kairaouani.
Later, thousands of Arabs driven by the Sultan of Cordoba in Andalusia, settled in the city of ADWAT of Andalusia.
In 1069, Fez was taken by the Almoravids. YOUSSEF BEN Tachfine was very interested in Fez, he demolished the walls that separated the two cities , built from the Kasbah filali Boujloud. His son BEN ALI Youssouf, took over the extension of the Karawiyin in 1135. Despite the distance between
Fes and Marrakech (Marrakech was their view that large capital), Almohades all took care of Fez. There is, of famous mosques, shrines or at the time. Industries also develop. Almohades then made of Fez one of the most modern cities at that time.
During Marinid dynasty in 1248, Fez has had another very important change, not only religiously, but also administratively. It became the capital of the sultans Merinids. It was then that some of Fez Fes El Jadid named, was built and the present royal palace, and many Medersas: Seffarine , Attarine Mesbahia ... etc.. Similarly
sultans Saadian whose capital was Marrakech at the time, were interested in Fez also of great works were carried out by Sultan Saadian MANSOUR AHMED EL (1578/1603), who built the Borj Nord which now houses a museum of weapons. He added two flags in the courtyard of the Karawiyin.
Finally, during the reign of the dynasty of Alawites and after the death of his Alawite Sultan Moulay Rachid, brother Moulay Ismail Meknes decided to make his capital. Despite this decision, Fez reached at that time the peak of its splendor. Thus, Moulay Hassan I built a famous Arsenal "the MAKINA.
Today, under the reign of the great builder of the new Morocco his majesty the king Mohammed VI , Fez continues to grow in the Domini Social Policy and Tourism.
She saw a new era. Several improvements have been made in Fes as well many local cultural events, are organized and international.
Just as Venice or the Mont Saint-Michel, Fez el Bali offers visitors the beauty of its madrassas, and mosques, the industrious activity of its streets, the shops are full of.
In surrendering to the rhythm of his footsteps, visitors to the miracle s'abondonne back in time to Medersa Attarine so richly decorated, the Medersas Seffarine on the place of coppersmiths, mosque Karaouiyne, via Nejjarine place, and all decorated so pretty fountain mosaic (Zelliges ) and the Zaouïa Moulay Idriss, which contains the tomb of Idris II, the visitor will do wonders in that wonderment. All
Morocco millennium craftsman in the souks, tanners, dyers and spiritual in its madrasas and mosques, is there before his eyes.
Around the city of Fez:
The region is green and offers visitors many attractions: the hot springs Sidi Hrazaem , and Moulay Yacoub, the ski resort of Ifrane, the picturesque town of Berber Sefrou celebrating all year's harvest his cherries, the craft center of Azrou where you can see the manufacture of precious carpets of the Middle Atlas
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