Ancient city of Fez global city

                      

Idris II founded the city in 1205 years ago to be the capital of the state Idrisid in Morocco, and since 

then has evolved Fez to become the second largest city in Morocco, where with a population of over two million people from the suburbs. Fez has been erected on the right bank of the river Fez, and its geographical today remember the central European cities that were built on the banks of rivers, such as Paris and London.

The central city of Fez and the capital of Morocco until 1912, when the transfer of the French colonial capital, Rabat. In plain Sais erupt near them tens of freshwater springs from aquifers, where Fez is characterized by abundant waters and abundance, so the water channels are distinguished primarily in the city where the branching of these channels to reach every home, school and mosque. This was the secret of their resilience and strength through the ages.

Fez and has raised its scientific and economic history of jealousy and the desire to tradition, so that the large Cairo was built in the style of Fez, imitated her doors and divisions and the establishment of the University of Al-Azhar religious is similar to the University of villagers in Fez. The continental climate characterized by very Fez, that any extreme in summer and winter, and the weather is mild in the spring and fall, and then the pleasure roaming in the old city of Fez el Bali, and the discovery of the mystique. Many recommend hiring services of a tour guide at your hotel Ptarifkm the nobility of this part of the Fez. After this guide you can waste as you like in its streets and alleys.

Reneged on successive Islamic eras Fez a large number of Islamic monuments, and remained the most important, such as the fence and gates eight arched and carved. The number of buildings in the authentic inside the fence to nearly ten thousand and building this huge number compared to the ancient cities in the world, add to four thousand water fountain and seventy kilometers of canals. Can you imagine this? ... As though you walk in the Italian city of Venice, but on solid ground!

Palaces built by Marinids on the hills surrounding Fez from the north, and antique bunk houses and courtyards and narrow mosaic ceramic fillings, and mosques scattered in the city - all of the signs of beauty in Fez unique. The largest mosques Qarawiyyin great still retains Bmenbrh carved wood. For his part to find a lot of angles and religious schools, but it was not a coincidence choose Fez capital of Islamic culture. The old town annexed to the list of international archaeological actually sponsored by UNESCO.

Almarstanat still in Fez of the basic attractions, where there were many hospitals and multiplied, and all beautiful and carefully constructed masterpiece to the onlookers. Perhaps a Marstanat Fez is Marstan Faraj record historical precedent when a doctor named Faraj al-Khazraji, a Muslim who left Andalusia and came to Fez, making the musicians playing in front of their patients for recreation and treatment.