FES

FES

medersas
The Imperial City is the capital of the traditional culture of Morocco. Cribs knowledge, superb madrasas are the flaming symbol.

schools
Gate of Fez
A madrasa is a school where the Koran is taught and all the academic subjects of knowledge: mathematics, grammar, history, astronomy, medicine ... In Morocco, especially in Fez, the function of the madrasas is also welcome students from other regions. Generally, it is organized around a central courtyard with a fountain. Classes are taught in the rich arcades on the sides.

The oldest university
Karaouiyine mosque is one of the largest in Morocco. It is home to the University considered the oldest in the world, founded in the middle of the ninth century, when the basic subjects were theology, grammar and Koranic law. Opposite El-Attarine Madrasa is considered the most beautiful of the medina.

El-Attarine
mérinides
Mérinides erected this masterpiece between 1323 and 1325. Its courtyard is beautifully decorated. The walls are covered with sura carved in wood or plaster. The fountain and marble columns are decorated with tiles.

Bou Inania
Built between 1350 and 1357, is the largest of Fez. Upon entry, beautiful with its heavy doors with ornate bronze doors, you will be impressed by the profusion of earthenware, refinement carved plaster and wood and chiselled stalactites called Mukarnas, the signing of the mérinide architecture. The court, onyx and marble, surmounted by a canopy of green tiles typical of Fez.
Think again: the oldest university in the world is not Oxford or the Sorbonne, is the University of Al-Karaouine in Fez el Bali. This walled city, declared World Heritage by UNESCO, will take you back to the Middle Ages. To explore the culture of this great city, or rather two cities, tempt fate by taking a taxi or go from one site to another on foot, the old quarters of the Medina riddled with mazes and Fes el Bali four majestic Gates of Fes, with their distinctive Moroccan mosaics.
Fez Medina founded in the ninth century and home to the oldest university in the world, Fez reached its height in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, under the Marinids when it replaced Marrakesh as the capital of the kingdom. The urban fabric and the principal monuments of the medina dates back to this period: Madrasah, fondouks, palaces, residences, mosques, fountains, etc. Despite the transfer of the seat of the capital Rabat in 1912, it retains its status as the cultural and spiritual capital of the country.
Source: * http: //whc.unesco.org/
              * http: //www.visitmorocco.com/