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Houses in the Fez Morocco Medina

Posted on January 1, 2008 - Filed Under Morocco tour

The houses in the Fez, Morocco Medina are beautiful and very artistic. The older house have  traditional tiles that are cut in shapes to fit together for a design.They also have pillars with handmade plaster work engraved all around them. The doors are large and made of wood with carvings in them. The traditional houses all have a courtyard a large empty space with a tile floor.  They have two salons off the courtyard that are furnished with frashes a type of couch. The houses all have round tables because they eat out of one dish in the center of the table with salads all around the table. So they must have a round table so everyone can reach.  In the house there is a kitchen with a stove with a gas bomb. The older houses did not have an oven because they would go to a bakery to bake their bread.
 

In Morocco in the Medina they do not mop there floor but the clean it by throwing water on the floor and sweeping it down the drain with a squegy  a long thin sponge at the end of an stick. The bigger houses usually have two stories and many rooms. The Moroccan families often stay together for a long time such as the grandparents, parents and kids all may stay together in the same house. The roofs are flat so we can walk on them and that is most families hang their laundry. From the roof you can see the Fez  Medina and all the houses, shops and mosques all around the city.  
  

 

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