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Il Diario

Trekking, deserto, montagne e le strade che li collegano — scritto dal Marocco, al ritmo reale del paese.

7 articoli corrispondente a fez

Cancella
A group sitting on rugs around a shared tagine and glasses of mint tea under walnut trees
Cucina
Marrakech & Fez

Taking a Moroccan Cooking Class (And Shopping the Market First)

The good classes start in the souk with an empty basket. What to look for when booking, what you should actually learn, and how to buy spices, argan oil and preserved lemons without being sold the tourist grade.

6 min di lettura
A clay tagine with the lid lifted, beef with prunes, toasted almonds, sesame seeds and hard-boiled egg inside
Cucina
Morocco

Moroccan Cuisine Is Not One Cuisine

A Fez tagine and a Marrakech tagine are different dishes. The regional map of Moroccan cooking — Fassi refinement, Marrakchi smoke, Souss argan, Rif mountain food and the Saharan bread baked in sand.

5 min di lettura
The tiled courtyard of a grand Moroccan riad, arcades and carved plaster on two storeys
Itinerari
Fez · Meknes · Rabat · Marrakech

The Imperial Cities, in the Right Order

Fez, Meknes, Rabat and Marrakech each ruled Morocco at different times. Doing them as a circuit works — but only if you get the sequence and the pacing right.

3 min di lettura
A narrow busy souk alleyway in Fez lined with stalls and hanging goods
Cultura
Fez · Marrakech

How to Read a Souk

A medina market is not a random sprawl. It is organised by trade, by smell, by noise and by proximity to the mosque — and once you see the logic you stop getting lost.

3 min di lettura
An intricate zellij mosaic panel framed by a traditional Moroccan arch, eight-pointed stars in glazed colour
Artigianato
Fez

The Geometry of Zellij

Every Moroccan tile pattern begins with an eight-pointed star, and every eight-pointed star begins with two squares.

2 min di lettura
A Moroccan courtyard with zellij dado, carved stucco and a cedar-beamed gallery above
Architettura
Fez

Anatomy of a Riad

The Moroccan courtyard house turns its back on the street entirely — and that single decision explains everything else about it.

2 min di lettura
Thin flatbread cooking on a hot iron plate over an open wood fire in a stone hearth
Cucina
Fez

Bread and the Communal Oven

In the old medina, families still carry their dough to a shared oven — and the man who bakes it knows every household by their loaf.

1 min di lettura