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Fès Sights

Medersa Bou Inania

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  • Price
    • admission Dh10
  • Hours
    • 9am-6pm, closed during prayers

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Lonely Planet review for Medersa Bou Inania

A short walk down Talaa Kebira from Bab Bou Jeloud, the Medersa Bou Inania is the finest of Fez’s theological colleges. It was built by the Merenid sultan Bou Inan between 1350 and 1357. The medersa underwent extensive restoration a few years ago, and the results are amazing: elaborate zellij and carved plaster, beautiful cedar mashrabiyyas (lattice screens) and massive brass doors.

 

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    Unfortunately, it's been trashed

    wendellr does not recommend this,

    A sign at the entrance brags about the extensive restoration efforts completed in 2004. Unfortunately, it appears that no one has lifted a finger in this place since then. There's garbage, construction debris, and significant pigeon droppings in the students' cells and inner hallways, and the main courtyard is marred by a sort of an open drain at one end -- scummy and green with algae, it's become a tourist rubbish pit and no one's bothering to clean it out. Only a very tiny portion of the medersa is open to the public and what's there could attract only those who really can't think of another single thing to do in Fez.

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