- Moroccan Culinary Arts Museum - Moroccan cuisine is rich and varied, owing to a variety of cultural influences.
Meat is well-spiced, vegetables are fresh and abundant, and everything is permeated with spices.
Moroccan cuisine is quite labor-intensive, and dishes are well presented as well as meticulously prepared.
Beef, lamb, chicken is all popular and used in a variety of dishes. Pigeon is also available, and the seafood in the coastal cities is not to be missed.
Rice and semolina are used for a variety of dishes.
A wide range of spices are used, including cumin, saffron, paprika, ginger, cinnamon, red and black pepper, and hundred others.
All this and much more are exhibited in the Culinary Arts Museum.
The Culinary arts museum is divided into six zones. Breads zone, salads zone, pastries zone,
- Bahia Palace - Bahia palace is a 19th century vast dwelling, built by Si Musa, the grand vizier of the Sultan of Morocco 1859.
The palace was enlarged by his son Ahmed Ben Musa known as Ba Ahmed who a regent; the effective ruler of Morocco as the Sultan was only sixteen.
Today, the palace is the most visited touristic site in Marrakesh.
The eight thousand meters square site contains Riads, courtyards, gardens, and corridors linking its different parts.
Built in in an Islamic and Moorish architecture style that was and still predominates the luxurious and lavish palaces and residences.
- Mellah - The Mellah quarter, (Jewish quarter) is part of the fabric of the city, a liminal space for the Muslims inhabitants of the city. This was an exclusive area for the Jewish community, and in which Muslims were allowed to enter in the daytime but remained closed at night, a space in which Muslims came to pursue economic activities and pay reverence to the Muslim saints found in the area, an area that Muslims identify with as part of Marrakech. Yet, it was also a space that was \
- Shared tour experience
- Complimentary bottled water
- Guided by a local expert
- Tea and coffee
- Gratuities
- Admissions fees to the sites are not included in the price, in general they cost around 10 USD each
No better introduction to any culture than its architecture, its culinary arts and the historical cohabitation of different ethnicities and religions.
After a reminder briefing concerning the program and the way we should proceed as a shared group, we head towards Bahia palace our first programmed site through hundreds of small shops along both sides of a narrow street forming a branch of the souk leading to the south of the Medina. The 19th-century Bahia palace is located at the Mellah quarter’s northern edge (Jewish quarter).
Not far, the Culinary Arts Museum is a stunning Moorish architecture Riad where all kinds of recipes of Moroccan cuisine are exhibited with brief explanations, including Moroccan Jewish cuisine (we are there for broad explanations).
After this comes the Mellah quarter with its souk of spices and its 15th-century Slat Lazama Synagogue.
We walk back through a different part of the Souk towards the very famous Jamaa Lafna Square where our tour does end.
- All sights mentioned are stroller accessible except for the Culinary arts museum they are left to a keeper there while visiting.
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