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Bookmark or Share- Fez, Morocco - WikipediaThe name of the city in Arabic is فاس Fās (or ڢاس in traditional Maghrebi script), from which the English names Fez, Fès, and Fas are derived. According to some traditions, the city's name comes from the Arabic word فأس Faʾs , meaning pickaxe .
- 11 Things To Do in Fes, Morocco (Complete Guide) - Salt in our Hair ...4. Take in the Smells of the Tanneries. Be sure to check out the world-famous tanneries of Fes! Discover hundreds of earthen pits full of various colored dye, which is used to color animal skins.
- Fez Travel Guide: The Oldest of Morocco's Imperial Cities - TripSavvyThe city also has its own airport, Fès–Saïs Airport (FEZ). Once you arrive in Fez, the best way to explore is on foot—and in any case, no vehicles are allowed within the medina. Outside the medina, you can employ the services of a petit-taxi ; small red cars that operate in much the same way as taxis elsewhere in the world.
- Fez travel - Lonely Planet | Morocco, AfricaIn its heyday, Fez attracted scholars and philosophers, mathematicians and lawyers, astronomers and theologians. Craftsmen built them houses and palaces, kings endowed mosques and medersas (religious schools), and merchants offered exotic wares from the silk roads and sub-Saharan trade routes.
- Fez – Travel guide at WikivoyageFez (فاس) (French: "Fès") is a city in Morocco famous for being home to the world's oldest university (Qarawiyyin University), dating to 859, and the world's oldest continuously-operating library, dating to 1359.
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