The 4th Fes Festival of Culinary Arts

25th – 28th October 2007 – Fes - Morocco

The gastronomic arts, know-how and rituals will be celebrated in different areas of our medieval city, a living example of both Berber and Arab-Andalous civilisations. Moroccan cuisine will be showcased by the traditional cooks of Fes and interpreted by the grand masters of western cuisine so that it can be shown in all its glory ...

Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information on: the Festival Programme, Tickets for the shows, Accommodation, Transfers, and other travel arrangements...

FES

A citadel of magnificence, Fez is the most imperial of the Imperial Cities of Morocco.  Some of the nation’s greatest treasures are found in this great place of palaces and museums, all entrancingly framed in sunlight and shadows.

The first capitol of the kingdom in 808 under Idriss II, and then twice again, in the 13th century under the Merinides and in the 19th during the reign of Moulay Abdallah, Fez – the spiritual and cultural centre of Morocco – is a city of many faces unmatched in splendour.

One of the city’s greatest sights is the imposing and splendid El Qaraouiyin mosque
with its scintillating roof of emerald tiles.  It is the oldest centre of learning in the Western world, predating even Oxford and the Sorbonne and now one of the main intellectual centres of North Africa.

Its library, one of the largest in the world, contains more than 30,000 books including a superb 9th century Koran.  Founded in 857, it continued to grow until 1317, and now stands as a monument to faith, a dream of stone and deep religious conviction.