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  • Fez Medina is the worlds largest car-free area and it is renowed for its maze-like narrow streets.
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  • Woman carrying a child on her back near Bab Sagma (Sagma Gate).
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  • Carpet store in Fez Medina.
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  • Bab Boujloud (Boujloud Gate) is the main entrance to the walled Fez medina.
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  • Man wearing a traditional "jelaba" clothing near a fountain close by Attarine Medersa.
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  • Boy selling traditional pharmaceutical products as roots and herbs in a shop inside Fez Medina.
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  • Talaa Kbira street is the main circulation path inside Fez Medina (Fes el-Bali)
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  • Fez Medina seen from Borj Sud. Fez is the medieval capital of Morocco, and a great city of high Islamic civilization. It has the best-preserved old city in the Arab world, the sprawling, labyrinthine medina of Fes el-Bali, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Man on a balcony inside an old palace in Fez medina. Many of these old palaces, also called ryads, have been converted to small luxury hotels.
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  • Fresh vegetables vendor in one of the medinas souks.
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  • Mirror shop with  pedestrians reflected in the mirrors. Fez Medina is full of shops, both touristical and traditional ones.
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  • Artisan manufacturing copper plates in a shop inside Fez medina.
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  • Pedestrians passing  near Moulay Idriss Tomb. Moulay Idriss is the founder of Morocco and of Fes. His Zaouia (tomb) is considered the holiest building in the holy city of Fes. Although non-muslins can't get in, it's permitted to walk around.and see the  lovely brass dividers. Quiet and serene this place is beautiful and peaceful.
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  • Portrait of a man removing excess from leather in Fez Tannery Quarter.
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  • The narrow Fez medina streets and its souks are bustled with vendors, shops, people carrying goods and the daily life is overwhelmingly fast.
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  • Bouinania Medersa is a 14th-century religious college. The best example of Islamic architecture a non-Muslim can see in Fez, with wooden walls elaborately carved with geometric patterns and Arabic calligraphy, and a beautiful minaret. In the courtyard there is a portico with a still-functioning mosque, separated by the rest of the courtyard by a small moat.
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  • Woman pushing a baby's car near a Moroccan national flag inside Fez Medina.
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  • From the Borj Nord near the Merenid Tombs there is a magnificent view over Fez Medina.
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  • Woman passing by in a patio inside El Moqri Palace in Fez Medina.
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  • Man pulling leather inside an ink filled pit. This ancient technique is still used nowadays in the Tannery wher men walk the narrow paths between huge vats of lye and colorful dyes, water wheels creak as the leather is rinsed, and buildings facing the tannery are covered with pelts hanging to dry.
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  • Children playing in a narrow alley inside Fez Medina.
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  • The narrow Fez medina streets and its souks are bustled with vendors, shops, people carrying goods and the daily life is overwhelmingly fast.
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  • Fez Tannery is a good example of mass production, a process that we often consider as being modern. The workers stand in the stone vessels arranged like honeycombs, filled with different dyes, dying the arms and legs of the men. The hides are first soaked in diluted acidic pigeon excrement and then transferred to other vessels containing vegetable dyes such as henna, saffron and mint. When the dying process has been completed the hides are dried on the roofs of the Medina or other close situated Morocco property roofs. Traditionally natural dyes were used, although some tanneries now use artificial dyes. The traditional tanneries get the red color from poppies, yellow from saffron, brown from henna, and green from wild mint.
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  • Fez Tannery is a good example of mass production, a process that we often consider as being modern. The workers stand in the stone vessels arranged like honeycombs, filled with different dyes, dying the arms and legs of the men. The hides are first soaked in diluted acidic pigeon excrement and then transferred to other vessels containing vegetable dyes such as henna, saffron and mint. When the dying process has been completed the hides are dried on the roofs of the Medina or other close situated Morocco property roofs. Traditionally natural dyes were used, although some tanneries now use artificial dyes. The traditional tanneries get the red color from poppies, yellow from saffron, brown from henna, and green from wild mint.
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  • Fez Tannery is a good example of mass production, a process that we often consider as being modern. The workers stand in the stone vessels arranged like honeycombs, filled with different dyes, dying the arms and legs of the men. The hides are first soaked in diluted acidic pigeon excrement and then transferred to other vessels containing vegetable dyes such as henna, saffron and mint. When the dying process has been completed the hides are dried on the roofs of the Medina or other close situated Morocco property roofs. Traditionally natural dyes were used, although some tanneries now use artificial dyes. The traditional tanneries get the red color from poppies, yellow from saffron, brown from henna, and green from wild mint.
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  • Beggar in a narrow street inside Fez Medina.
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