Meknes, the Museum Dar Jamaï

In 1920, the Museum Dar Jamaï is installed in a building dating frrom 1882 and carrying the name of the Vizier Abou Abdellah Mohamed Jamai, powerful vizier of the Sultan Moulay Hassan the 1st...


Where to sleep in Meknes?


Of sumptuous architecture, including Zellige decorations, painted wood, carved plaster, the museum shelters a collection of the Meknassi craft industry, Middle Atlas, the Pre-Rif: woodcarvings, weaving, embroidery, ironwork, leather working...

PS : Museum Dar Jamaï – Hadim Place - Meknès - Morocco

Where to sleep in Shefshaouen?

The city was founded in 1415 by the saint Moulay Ali Ibn Rachid. His company was the symbol of a local resistance to the Portuguese and Spanish conquest...

Where to sleep in Shefshaouen?


The massive arrival of Andalusian families during the Spanish period of Reconquista contributed to its demographic and architectural development.

In addition to its military role, Shefshaouen constituted through its history a religious and spiritual pole which played a regional mobilizing influence against the Iberian danger.

Shefshaouen counts a significant religious inheritance: 20 mosques and oratories, 11 zawiyas and 17 mausoleums; which was behind its appellation as El Medina El
Saliha "the Holy City".

Shefshaouen remained a long time closed to Europeans, only Charles de Foucauld in 1883 succeeded in penetrating the city during its famous "recognition through Morocco"... but remained only one night there.

In 1920, the Spanish took Shefshaouen, and returned it back to the kingdom of Morocco in 1956 .

Casablanca, the ancient medina

Still keeping mainly its ramparts, restored in the 18th century, the ancient medina has the usual aspect of Arab and Muslim cities, offering a seizing contrast with the modern arteries of the city: labyrinth of animated lanes broadsided by tradesmen and craftsmen shops, barbers...

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Casablanca, the Hassan II Mosque

Financed partly by the Moroccan people within a national framework subscription and inaugurated in August 30, 1993, the Hassan II mosque (conceived by the French architect Michel Pinseau), is an architectural masterpiece.


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Symbol of an Islam open to the world and science, according to the wish of Hassan II and built partly on water, in the extreme point of Maghreb! It perpetuates, on the Pharaonic way, the tradition of architectural research and technical innovation which marked the white city since its creation. This gigantic complex is highly impressing: interminable arcs, cyclopean gates, crushing mass of the minaret (which launches its laser beam to nearly 30 km in direction of Mecque).



The religious
building is designed to receive 25 000 person inside and 80 000 on the esplanade which prolongs it.

The realisation of this masterpiece needed the effort of 35 000 craftsmen from Safi, Marrakech and Fez and six years of work of the Bouygues group, which ensured its realization. The site covers 22,24 a, of which two thirds were gained on the sea. In addition to the mosque itself, extends a vast complex of buildings intended to shelter coranic libraries, schools and conference centres, and which remain in the state of project.



Inside the building, all is imposing and monumental; the decoration luxury and refinement exalt the Moroccan artisan know-how: frescos and Zellige, painted and carved wood, stuccos with inextricable drawings, arabesques, luminous colours, all testify to the talent and innovative spirit of the Moroccan artists. After having crossed one of the 25 brass and titanium gates, you enter the immense prayer room, supported by 78 pillars. Moucharabiehs in cedar, ebony and mahogany, onyx and marble coatings, with profusion of Italian Murano glosses. During hot summer days, the sliding ceiling, a mass of cedar of 1 100 opens the room of prayer to the sky... the roof is covered with green emerald tiles, colour symbol of spiritual plenitude in Islam. The ablution rooms with basins in the shape of lotus are in the basement (occupied also by hammams and Turkish baths).