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Bookmark & shareGetting the most out of Fez is easy. The difficult part is leaving.
The great novelist Amin Maalouf writes of uncovering Fez's layers '…veil by veil, like a bride in her marriage chamber', and though most visitors resemble bashful bridegrooms on their first day in town, they're usually pretty swift to get into the connubial swing of things here.
Fast Facts
Population
946,815
Currency
Name: Moroccan Dirham
Code: MAD
Symbol: DH
Electrical Plugs
127/220V 50Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Arabic, Tamazight
Time Zones
GMT/UTC + 0
Country Dialing Code
+212
Weights & Measures
Metric
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