An important diary date for visitors to Fez is the annual Festival of World Sacred Music. It takes place this year from May 24 to June 01st. Featuring concerts, debates, and joint performances of Muslim and Christian devotional music from artists from all over the world. Morocco has for years been opening its arms to musicians from all over the world. The festival this year [...]
Tafraoute stands proudly as the largest producer of almonds in Morocco. The fact that infuses the festival with a sense of local pride and abundance. The festival has been a cherished annual event for the village, serving as a jubilant homage to the bountiful harvest and the prosperity it brings. As the harvest season unfolds, the village comes alive with a kaleidoscope of colors and [...]
Christmas Spirit The Olive Tree is a delightful alternative to the Christmas tree, signifying peace, hope and friendship. We at the Palais Amani have an annual tradition of making our own Christmas Olive Tree. In the Koran, the olive tree is “the blessed tree” and Muslims make prayer beads out of wood from olive trees for centuries. Early societies, consider trees to be sacred and [...]
One of the most striking features of Moroccan architecture is the Zellij, the creation of an intricate mosaic design using hand-cut, glazed tiles. Skilled artisans assemble the jigsaw-like tiles to form geometrical patterns of great complexity. Each piece in the mosaic has a different name, describing either its shape or its function: these include squares, triangles, stars, diamonds, polygons, crosses, knots, forks and candles. Colours [...]
Ba Mohammed embarks on a whole new adventure. The Palais Amani Effect: Summer in Fez: that dry baking heat, intense and luminous that revs up day after day and seems here to stay, permanent, unstoppable. And then one day the heat breaks, the morning starts with freshness in the air, and we know that autumn and a new high season have [...]
Sunset over Palais Amani's rooftop and Fez's medina Spectacular feast for the eyes The sun goes down over the Merinides and the sky blushes streaks of pink and apricot. A couple of storks flap awkwardly across the skyline going home to roost on the medina’s fortified walls. Our guests make their way to the seating outside the roof top bar at Palais Amani for another spectacular [...]
This time last week, as the medical state of emergency was declared in Morocco, Palais Amani shut its doors. Or as shut as we can ever be, for our wonderful oasis just inside the medina in Fez can never be completely empty. The great cedar doors that under normal circumstances are opened by Ba Mohamed to welcome travel weary guests only shut from the inside, meaning [...]
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