About This Tour
The Fez medina is the largest living medieval craft quarter in the world — thousands of artisans working in workshops that have occupied the same buildings for centuries, producing the same objects using the same techniques.
This 3-hour tour visits active workshops across four traditional craft guilds: the pottery quarter where artisans produce the distinctive blue and white Fez ceramics on foot-powered wheels unchanged since the medieval era; the zellige workshop where craftsmen hand-cut and lay the geometric tile mosaics seen in every palace in Morocco; the woodcarving atelier producing the cedar panels used in mosque ceilings; and the leather quarter adjacent to the Chouara tanneries.
Your guide explains the guild system, the apprenticeship tradition (still 7 years in some crafts) and identifies genuine handmade quality versus the machine-made products that have flooded cheaper markets.