Fez Guided City Tour with All-Inclusive Entrance Fees
Overview
A local guide leads the way through Fes el-Bali, the walled medina that has been lived in without interruption since the ninth century and still admits no cars. The route takes in the Nejjarine woodwork museum, the tiled gate at Bab Boujloud, the Aben Danan synagogue, the Kairaouine mosque and university, and the terraces above the Chouara tanneries. Entrance fees for the monuments on the itinerary are covered.
Highlights
- A guide with more than forty years of knowledge of the medina's lanes
- Entrance fees to the monuments on the route included, with no queuing
- Al-Qarawiyyin, founded in 859 and still the oldest continuously operating university in the world
- The Chouara tanneries seen from the terraces above the stone dye pits
- Craftsmanship up close: carved cedar at Nejjarine, hand-chiselled zellij at the pottery atelier
- Private or mini group, with free hotel pick-up in an air-conditioned, WiFi-equipped vehicle
Full Description
Fontaine Nejjarine
A restored caravanserai beside the carpenters' fountain, now a museum of Moroccan woodcraft — cedar doors, inlaid chests, prayer beads and the tools that shaped them. Admission is included.
Duration: 45 min
Bab Boujloud, Derb Mernissi
The twelfth-century gateway into the old medina, blue on the outer face and green on the inner, framing the minarets beyond. From here the walk turns into the lanes of Derb Mernissi. Admission not included.
Duration: 30 min
Aben Danan Synagogue
One of the largest and oldest surviving synagogues in North Africa, renovated in 1870, with its bimah, women's gallery and ritual bath intact. Admission is included.
Duration: 30 min
Kairaouine Mosque
Founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri and recognised as the oldest continuously operating educational institution anywhere in the world. Visitors take in the courtyard and green-tiled roofs from the surrounding doorways. Admission is included.
Duration: 30 min
Chouara Tannery
Terraces overlook the honeycomb of stone pits where hides are still softened and dyed by hand, exactly as they have been for centuries. Admission not included.
Duration: 30 min
Art D'Argile
A working pottery and mosaic atelier where craftsmen throw and glaze by hand, then chisel fired tiles into the geometric zellij that covers the city's walls. Admission not included.
Duration: 30 min
Inclusions:
- Registered official, knowledgeable tour guide
- Free city centre hotel pick-up and drop-off in Fes
- A/C, WiFi vehicle with multilingual driver
- Bottled mineral water
- Entrance fees to monuments
Exclusions:
- Pick-up from hotels outside the city centre requires extra fees
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Instant confirmation — a confirmation email and voucher arrive immediately after booking
- Printed or mobile vouchers are both accepted
- Free date change up to 12 hours before departure time
- No cancellation fee if cancelled at least 24 hours before the scheduled pick-up
- 100 percent cancellation fee within 24 hours of the scheduled pick-up
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
- No refund for cancellations made less than 24 hours before the start time.
- Changes requested less than 24 hours before the start time cannot be accepted.
- Times are local. Experiences cancelled for poor weather are refunded in full or rescheduled.