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Famous Landmarks in Morocco: 11 Sites Worth Seeing

A week through three Moroccos: Marrakech’s red-walled carnival of souks and squares, Fes’s medieval labyrinth where the Middle Ages never really ended, and the blue-washed mountain calm of Chefchaouen in the Rif. See the full itinerary.

From the same hand-researched library as our Morocco itinerary. Last reviewed 2026-07-29.

Marrakech

Marrakech has run on trade and spectacle for a thousand years, a Berber imperial capital where the evening square still fills with storytellers, musicians, and food smoke as it has for centuries. It is the most intense sensory introduction Morocco has.

1
Jemaa el-Fna
The great square, UNESCO-listed for the nightly show itself, by day orange-juice carts, by night a smoking city of food stalls and drummers. Come in the morning for juice and relative calm, then return at dusk for the show.
Marrakech
2
Bahia Palace
A 19th-century vizier’s palace of painted cedar ceilings, zellij tilework, and courtyards built to hold gardens inside the city. Go early; it is everyone’s first stop for a reason.
Marrakech
3
Ben Youssef Madrasa
Once North Africa’s largest Quranic college, 130 student cells around a courtyard of astonishing carved stucco and tile, freshly restored and reopened in 2022.
Marrakech
4
Koutoubia Mosque
The 77-meter 12th-century minaret that set the template for towers from Seville to Rabat. Non-Muslims admire from outside, the gardens and the sunset silhouette are the visit.
Marrakech

Fes

Fes el-Bali is the world’s largest living car-free medieval city, 9,000 alleys, a university founded in 859 that still teaches, and artisan quarters organized as they were under the Marinids. Where Marrakech performs, Fes simply continues.

5
Bab Boujloud
The Blue Gate: blue-tiled toward the world, green toward Islam, and the classic framing of the medina’s minarets. Both main streets start here.
Fes
6
Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University
Founded by Fatima al-Fihri in 859 and often cited as the world’s oldest continuously operating university. Non-Muslims glimpse the courtyard from the doorways, the adjacent restored library facade rewards the detour.
Fes
7
Bou Inania Madrasa
The finest Marinid building open to non-Muslim visitors, carved cedar, stucco lace, and a green-tiled minaret, still a working religious school.
Fes
8
Chouara Tannery
Leather cured in stone honeycomb vats as it has been since the Middle Ages, viewed from the surrounding terraces. The sprig of mint they hand you at the door is not optional.
Fes

Chefchaouen

A 15th-century mountain town in the Rif painted a hundred shades of blue, founded by Andalusian refugees, left alone by history, and now Morocco at its gentlest. After Fes. It is the exhale.

9
The Kasbah
The town’s founding 15th-century fortress on the square, much restored, gardens inside the walls and a tower view over the blue rooftops to the Rif.
Chefchaouen
10
Ras el-Ma spring
The mountain spring at the medina’s top gate where the town still does its washing, follow the water channels back down through the lanes.
Chefchaouen
11
Grand Mosque
The 15th-century mosque on the plaza with Morocco’s rare octagonal minaret, admired from the square, as entry is for worshippers.
Chefchaouen

Museums, parks, and neighborhoods are on the full Morocco itinerary, sequenced into a realistic day-by-day plan with transport between cities.

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