Gates of Fès

I haven’t begun to fathom how large the medina of Fès was. When I first went in the medina, it was to check in to my accommodation and leave my stuff. Immediately, I was overwhelmed by the large number of people in here. There is an even larger number of stalls here compared to what I saw in Chefchaoen. If I had problems with Chefchaoen, what more here in Fès. This was immediately evident when I was trying to locate my accommodations. The feeling was like if you make one wrong turn then that’s it for you. Another problem I had with this place was that once inside, even GPS can’t help you since the walls are so close to each other, it was difficult to get a proper signal from the satellites. From my understanding, you need to get a fix from several of satellites to get a proper location reading.

I entered the medina from one of the side entrances. I later found out that the walls of the medina extend further than I thought. It actually encloses another plaza called Place Boujloud. There was little of note here apart from the car park where you can drop you car off if you are driving in. The walls then open up to the rest of the city. You can see that there are other gates here which lead to different places. Some would lead to the royal palace and others to a residential area nearby. It seems that the medina of Fès continued to grow throughout the centuries. It is amusing to see how the old and new can continue to exist side by side.

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