Start from 31 curated places around Fez, MA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
L'Amandier
The rooftop restaurant of the Palais Faraj, plating refined Moroccan and Mediterranean dishes from a terrace with a sweeping view over the whole medina. The city's standout special-occasion dinner, setting and food in equal measure.
Dar Roumana
A beautiful traditional dar in the medina where the kitchen plates Franco-Moroccan cooking with a Parisian-bistro polish, served in a candlelit courtyard. The grown-up, romantic medina dinner with genuine culinary ambition.
Trails & outdoors
Marinid Tombs Viewpoint
A short climb to the ruined Marinid royal tombs on the hillside north of the medina, where the crumbling mausoleums frame the single best panorama over the whole old city. The classic walk for sunset over Fes el-Bali.
Borj Sud
A 16th-century hilltop fortress on the south side of the valley, reached by a walk up through olive groves to a viewpoint facing the medina from the opposite ridge. Quieter than the northern tombs and a fine alternative panorama.
Things to do
Dar Batha Museum
A museum of Moroccan arts and crafts inside a 19th-century Hispano-Moorish palace, strong on the blue-and-white Fassi ceramics the city is famous for, set around a tranquil Andalusian garden. The setting and the pottery collection are both worth the visit.
Nejjarine Museum of Wooden Arts and Crafts
A museum of traditional Moroccan woodwork housed in a beautifully restored 18th-century fondouk, or caravanserai, on Nejjarine Square. The carved-balcony building around its courtyard is as impressive as the instruments and furniture inside.
Landmarks & sights
Fes el-Bali
The walled old city of Fez, the largest car-free urban area in the world, a labyrinth of some 9,000 lanes packed with mosques, workshops, and souks unchanged for centuries. Getting hopelessly lost in it is the whole point, and the experience the city is built on.
Bou Inania Madrasa
A 14th-century Marinid religious college widely held to be the finest in Morocco, a small courtyard sheathed in carved cedar, stucco, marble, and zellij. Rare among the city's religious buildings, non-Muslims are welcome inside.