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Best time to visit: Mar–Apr · Oct–Nov
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Morocco
Medinas, mountains and desert within a day of each other. Bargaining is a conversation, not a fight.
Morocco in ten slides
Wikipedia · 3 Sep 2026
Best time to visit Morocco: Mar–Apr · Oct–Nov
Warm days, cold desert nights, no summer furnace.
Where people go in Morocco
- Marrakesh4 days is about right
- Fez3 days is about right
- Casablanca2 days is about right
- Rabat2 days is about right
- Tangier2 days is about right
- Meknes2 days is about right
- Agadir
- Oujda
- Ksar El Kebir
- Safi
What people go to see in Morocco
Ain Diab is a neighborhood located at the Corniche of Casablanca, Morocco. The neighborhood is affluent and famous for the fashionable stretch of coastline known as the Corniche. There are numerous hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and Lalla Meryem Beach and Ain Diab Beach.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 29 Mar 2026
Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Hassan II Mosque is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the second largest mosque in Africa and one of the largest mosques in the world. Its minaret is the world's second tallest minaret at 210 metres (689 ft).
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 1 Aug 2026
Petar Milošević · CC-BY-SA-4.0
Mohammed V Square is a public square of historical and symbolic significance located in central Casablanca, Morocco. It was established in 1916 at the beginning of the French protectorate in Morocco under Resident-general Hubert Lyautey, on a design by architects Henri Prost and Joseph Marrast.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 9 Aug 2026
Rigelus · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Medina of Casablanca, sometimes the Old Medina, is the historic center of the city.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 11 Apr 2026
Felix Weisgerber · Public domain
The Casablanca Cathedral, or Church of the Sacred Heart, is a former church located west of the Arab League Park in Casablanca, Morocco.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 15 May 2026
Turdyfirst · CC-BY-SA-4.0
The Al-Attarine Madrasa or Medersa al-Attarine is a madrasa in Fez, Morocco, near the Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque. It was built by the Marinid sultan Uthman II Abu Said between 1323 and 1325. The madrasa takes its name from the Souk al-Attarine, the spice and perfume market.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2 Jun 2026
Robert Prazeres · CC BY-SA 4.0
The University of al-Qarawiyyin, also written Al-Karaouine or Al Quaraouiyine, is a university located in Fez, Morocco. It was founded as a mosque by Fatima al-Fihri in 857–859 and subsequently became one of the leading spiritual and educational centers of the Islamic Golden Age.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 22 Aug 2026
Abdel Hassouni · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bab Bou Jeloud is an ornate city gate in Fes el Bali, the old city of Fez, Morocco. The current gate was built by the French colonial administration in 1913 to serve as the grand entrance to the old city.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 17 Jul 2026
Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Bou Inania Madrasa or Bu 'Inaniya Madrasa is a madrasa in Fez, Morocco, built in 1350–55 by the Marinid sultan Abu Inan Faris. It is the only madrasa in Morocco which also functioned as a congregational mosque. It is widely acknowledged as a high point of Marinid architecture and of historic Moroccan architecture generally.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 22 Mar 2026
Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chouara Tannery is one of the three tanneries in the city of Fez, Morocco. It is the largest tannery in the city and one of the oldest. It is located in Fes el Bali, the oldest medina quarter of the city, near the Saffarin Madrasa along the Oued Fes.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2 Feb 2026
Uwe Brodrecht · CC BY-SA 2.0
Fes el Bali is the oldest part of Fez, Morocco. It is one of the three main districts of Fez, along with Fes Jdid and the French-created Ville Nouvelle. Together with Fes Jdid, it forms the medina of Fez, significant for the preservation of its pre-modern urban layout and numerous historic monuments, which have earned it UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 26 Jul 2026
Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Bahia Palace is a mid to late 19th-century palace in Marrakesh, Morocco. The palace was first begun by Si Musa, grand vizier under the Alawi sultan Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman, in the 1860s. It was expanded by his son Si Ba Ahmed ibn Musa, grand vizier of Sultan Moulay Abdelaziz, between 1894 and 1900.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 22 Mar 2026
Val Traveler · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jemaa el-Fnaa, also Jemaa el-Fna, Djema el-Fna or Djemaa el-Fnaa, is a square and market place in the medina quarter of Marrakesh, Morocco. It remains the main square of Marrakesh, used by locals and tourists.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 23 May 2026
Boris Macek · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque is an oil on canvas painting by Winston Churchill, from 1943. It depicts a view of the Kutubiyya Mosque, in Marrakesh. The painting, the only one Churchill undertook during the Second World War, was completed on 25/26 January 1943, during a visit to the city by Churchill and President Franklin D.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 27 Jun 2026
The Majorelle Garden is a one-hectare (two-acre) botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by French architect Paul Sinoir in the 1930s. The property was the residence of the artist and his wife from 1923 until their divorce in the 1950s.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 7 Aug 2026
Viault · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marrakesh or Marrakech is the fourth-largest city in Morocco. It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakesh-Safi region. The city lies west of the foothills of the Atlas Mountains.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2 Sep 2026
Acp · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Saadian Tombs are a historic royal necropolis in Marrakesh, Morocco, located on the south side of the Kasbah Mosque, inside the royal kasbah (citadel) district of the city. They date to the time of the Saadian dynasty and in particular to the reign of Ahmad al-Mansur (1578–1603), though members of Morocco's monarchy continued to be buried here for a time afterwards.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 19 Jul 2026
C messier · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bab Mansur al-'Alj or Bab Mansour is a monumental gate in the city of Meknes, Morocco. Located on the south side of Place el-Hedim in the old city, it was originally the main ceremonial entrance to the Kasbah of Sultan Moulay Isma'il, built in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Today it is one of the most famous and admired landmarks in the city.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 23 Jun 2026
Robert Prazeres · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Bou Inania Madrasa is a historic madrasa in the city of Meknes, Morocco. The building, well-preserved thanks to later restorations, is considered an excellent example of the richly decorated madrasas of the Marinid period.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2 Jun 2026
Ben Bender · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Heri es-Swani or Heri es-Souani, sometimes also transliterated as Hury as-Swani or Hri Swani, is a historic monument in Meknes, Morocco. It was a massive structure that served as a granary or silo for the Imperial Kasbah built by Moulay Isma'il during his reign from 1672 to 1727.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 21 Jul 2026
Andrew Brehmer · CC BY 2.0
The Mausoleum of Moulay Isma'il is a historic Islamic funerary complex in Meknes, Morocco. It contains the tomb of Sultan Moulay Isma'il, who ruled Morocco from 1672 until his death in 1727, and is located inside his former Kasbah (citadel). It is a major historic and religious site in the city.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 21 Jul 2026
Rigelus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Volubilis is a partly excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco, situated near the city of Meknes, that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II. Before Volubilis, the capital of the kingdom may have been at Gilda.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 28 Aug 2026
Subhros · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Tangier American Legation, officially the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIMS), is a building in the medina of Tangier, Morocco, that formerly housed the United States diplomatic mission to Morocco. It was the first American public property abroad and is the only U.S. National Historic Landmark in a foreign country.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 31 Aug 2026
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cape Spartel is a promontory in Morocco about 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, 12 km west of Tangier. It is the northwesternmost point of the African continent. Below the cape are the Caves of Hercules.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 6 Jul 2026
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Caves of Hercules is an archaeological cave complex located in Cape Spartel, Morocco.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 29 Jun 2026
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Grand Socco, officially the Place du 9 Avril 1947, is a historic quasi-circular roundabout square separating the old medina from newer developments in downtown Tangier, Morocco.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 14 Apr 2025
Chris Yunker · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Kasbah Mosque is a mosque in Tangier, Morocco, and the main mosque of the historic royal citadel (kasbah) in the old city (medina) of Tangier. It dates to the late 17th century.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 30 Jul 2026
Pep Pérez Castelló · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Kasbah Palace, also known as Dar al-Makhzen, Sultan's Palace or Governor's Palace and formerly as the Sharifian Palace, is a historical building and museum in the Kasbah or citadel of Tangier, Morocco. Its site has long been the main seat of political power in Tangier.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 17 Jun 2026
Yamen · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Chellah or Shalla is a medieval fortified necropolis and ancient archeological site in Rabat, Morocco, located on the south (left) side of the Bou Regreg estuary. The earliest evidence of the site's occupation suggests that the Phoenicians established a trading emporium here in the first millennium BC.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 18 Jul 2026
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Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. It was commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, near the end of the 12th century. The tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world, and the mosque, if completed, would have been the largest in the western Muslim world.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 21 Jul 2026
Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Kasbah of the Udayas, also spelled Kasbah of the Oudaias or of the Oudayas, is a kasbah (citadel) in Rabat, Morocco. It is located on a hill at the mouth of the Bou Regreg opposite Salé, and adjacent to the Medina quarter of Rabat. It is listed, along with other sites in Rabat, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 21 Jul 2026
Davide Cesare Veniani · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Mausoleum of Mohammed V is a mausoleum located across from the Hassan Tower in Rabat, Morocco. It contains the tombs of the Moroccan king Mohammed V and his two sons, late King Hassan II and Prince Abdallah.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 19 Dec 2025
Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, abbreviated MMVI, is a contemporary and modern art museum in Rabat, Morocco which opened in 2014. It is one of fourteen museums of the National Foundation of Museums of Morocco. The museum curates modern and contemporary Moroccan and international art.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 10 Jul 2026
Musée Mohammed VI d’art moderne et contemporain · Public domain
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Guides about Morocco
March to May and September to November for the cities. Why July is brutal inland and perfect on the coast, and what Ramadan actually changes.
Yasmine Belkacem · 2 Sep 2026
Morocco has two good months and most first trips try to do too much of it. The route that works, what the desert actually costs in days, and the hassle rule.
Yasmine Belkacem · 2 Sep 2026
Violent crime is rare and the hassle is real, and conflating the two helps nobody. The specific scams by name, the square after dark, and what actually works.
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