Beneath technicolour cedarwood ceilings, maps show Moroccan empires that once encompassed nearly the entire Iberian peninsula, Tunis and Nouakchott, now the capital of Mauretania, and how the city’s ...

So, his son Idris II finished Fes in 789, creating Morocco’s first Imperial city. Marrakech may hog the headlines, but elegant Fes is the country’s cultural heart.