Qualla: Fez https://qualla.com/fez en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/h/3/fez-wk/panorama-fez-old-town.jpg Qualla: Fez https://qualla.com/fez Fez: Introduction https://qualla.com/fez/ Photo credit Abdel Hassouni, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fez is Morocco's spiritual and cultural capital, the city of 1.2 million whose medina is the world's largest car-free urban zone and whose university may be the world's oldest. The city that Idriss I founded in 789, that has held Morocco's learning and faith for over a millennium, whose medieval lanes and souks and crafts continue as they have for centuries - Fez is Morocco as it was before modernity, the medina that getting lost in is the only way to understand.

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/h/3/fez-wk/eyh3-fez-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fez: The Medina https://qualla.com/fez/ Photo credit Jerzystrzelecki, CC BY 3.0. Fez el-Bali is the old medina that UNESCO lists and that visitors inevitably get lost in, the 9,000 lanes and alleys that no map adequately captures. The medina that is world's largest car-free urban zone, where donkeys and carts move goods that motors cannot reach, where medieva...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/h/3/fez-wk/eyh3-fez-the-medina.mp3 0:06 2 full Fez: The Tanneries https://qualla.com/fez/ Photo credit Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Chouara Tannery is Fez's most famous sight and its most pungent, the dyeing pits where leather has been processed for centuries using methods that haven't changed. The tanneries where workers stand in vats of pigeon dung and quicklime, where visitors watch from terraces while...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/h/3/fez-wk/eyh3-fez-the-tanneries.mp3 0:06 3 full Fez: The University https://qualla.com/fez/ Photo credit Khonsali, Public domain. Al-Qarawiyyin University may be the world's oldest continuously operating university, founded in 859 when a woman's bequest created the mosque that teaching made university. The university whose graduates include Ibn Khaldun, whose religious education continues, whose library hol...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/h/3/fez-wk/eyh3-fez-the-university.mp3 0:06 4 full Fez: The Gates https://qualla.com/fez/ Photo credit Robert Prazeres, Public domain. The gates of Fez are what photography features, the ornate portals whose tilework and carving display Moroccan art at its finest. The Bab Bou Jeloud whose blue tiles frame the medina entrance, the royal palace gates whose brass and decoration dazzle - the gates are Fez's architec...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/h/3/fez-wk/eyh3-fez-the-gates.mp3 0:06 5 full Fez: The Crafts https://qualla.com/fez/ Photo credit Josep Renalias, CC BY-SA 3.0. Fez's crafts are what the medina sustains, the workshops where metalwork and woodwork and pottery and weaving continue as they have for generations. The crafts that tourists buy, that export feeds, that tradition maintains - the crafts are Fez's economic base and its cultural her...

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