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5. Tours during the conference
Full day tour to Fez Departure time :10.00am Price per person:60$ Fez, the holiest and imperial city in the Islamic world after Mecca and Medina. Founded at the beginning of the 9th century by Moulay Idriss II. Fez is the best surviving example of an ancient Arab city, Fez is comprised of a new city, established in the 12th century, and the unchanged 2,000-year-old medina.
Tour Fez el-Bali (Fez the Old) and its medieval medina (old town), a UNESCO world heritage site crammed with narrow, winding streets, where donkeys laden with goods trawl alongside buyers through the ancient market. A fascinating maze of lanes, blind alleys, bustling souks, and artisan workshops, the atmosphere assaults the senses with fragrant spices, exotic delicacies, brightly colored carpets, and fine handmade goods bursting from endless stalls. Visit centuries-old mosques and universities, see the multi-colored vats of the open-air tanneries, tour the ceramic workshops that create prized Moroccan mosaics, and shop for traditional goods made from copper, ceramics, and leather. Half day tour to Meknes and Volubilis Departure time :14.00pm Price per person:35$ Meknes Meknes is one of Morocco’s most beautiful historical cities, its twenty-two kilometres of town wall, monumental gates and the ruins of an immense palatial complex form an impressive and curious backdrop for the meeting point of Morocco’s main roads.
The 17th century sultan Moulay Ishmail wanted to create a royal capital here that would rival Versailles. He had an army of bricklayers, black slaves and several hundred captured Christian slaves build 120km of town wall, dream palaces, stables for 12,000 horses, hanging gardens watered by a 4 hectare pond and immense storage sheds. After almost a century of construction, he left one of the most beautiful cities in Moorish-Arabic style in the world. Volubilis Volubilis features the best preserved ruins in this part of northern Africa. In 1997 the site was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. In antiquity, Volubilis was an important Roman town situated near the westernmost border of Roman conquests.
Volubilis was the administrative center of the province in Roman Africa called Mauretania Tingitana. The Romans evacuated most of Morocco at the end of the 3rd century AD but, unlike some other Roman cities, Volubilis was not abandoned. However, it appears to have been destroyed by an earthquake in the late fourth century AD. |
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