Awa Diakhaté’s Short-List

• Visit the Bou Inania madrasa, an architectural and spiritual masterpiece.
• Savor a sweet and savory pigeon pastilla.
• Take a cooking class, to learn about the culinary savoir-faire of the city.

• Café-Clock: with terrace, workshops, live music, and a fusion menu mixing Moroccan and international cuisine.
• Snack Thami: you can enjoy good, hot bessaras (split pea soups) there in the respect of tradition.
• Riad Fès (Relais & Châteaux): which offers refined Fassi gastronomy in a sumptuous setting.
• Ishq Restaurant: which offers revisited Fassi cuisine in an elegant atmosphere on the terrace with lounge music.

• Café Nejjarine: for a mint tea break with a view of Nejjarine Square.

• Souk Nejjarine in the medina: handcrafted carved wood, unique objects.
• Art Naji on the road to Sefrou: exceptional Fassi ceramics.
• Your’Kreative by Kamal Boutyour in the New City: outfits (caftans, dresses, pants) with modern designs and Moroccan touches.
• Asly concept store in the medina: an arty and creative selection, ranging from fashion to decorative accessories, including candles and home fragrances.

• Jnan Sbil Garden: a green setting where the murmur of birds and fountains mingle.
• Hammam Riad Fès: the must-do to fully experience this traditional hammam ritual enveloped in steam and soft light.

• Mahmouma by Nass El Ghiwane.
• Taragalte by Oum.
• One of the 24 Andalusian noubas, slow and hypnotic.

• Mount Zalagh at sunset, deep blue brilliance.
• The terraces of the Les Mérinides hotel to observe the medina spread out below, like a vast carpet of ochre and intertwined roofs.

• A rug woven by experienced craftswomen.
• Brightly colored babouches.
• Cornes de gazelle (gazelle horns, a pastry).
• Khlii (dried meat).

• Volubilis for its Roman ruins, the memory of an empire.
• Ifrane for the coolness of its cedar forests.
• Sefrou for its waterfalls and, in summer, its cherries.