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Rehabilitation of Four Caravansérail of Fès Medina

«The Medina of Fez constitutes an outstanding example of a medieval town created during the very rst centuries of Islamisation of Morocco and presenting an original type of human settlement and traditional occupation of the land representative of Moroccan urban culture over a long historical period. The Medina of Fez bears a living witness to a ourishing city of the eastern Mediterranean having exercised considerable in uence on the development of architecture, monumental arts and town-planning, notably in North Africa, Andalousia and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fez Jedid (the new town), was inspired from the earlier town planning model of Marrakesh».

UNESCO World Heritage List

Photos by Lilia Sellami
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