The Fes Medina, Morocco

The medina in Fes has two areas--a 9th century area and a 14th century area. The old part is entered through these magnificent blue gates.
The other side of the gate is done in green tiles.  Why?  Blue is the color of Fes and green is the color of Islam and of peace.  It is a wonderful way to start an adventure in the narrow crowded medina, which houses thousands of people as well as hundreds of businesses.  Our guide told us that if we got separated from the group that we were to stand still.  They would find us.  If we kept moving it would be impossible to decipher where we might end up and we would be on our own.  "Does everyone have cab fare and the name of the hotel?"

This is the clock house, which is where Maimonides lived when he was a student in Fes after fleeing his home in Cordoba after the Spanish Inquisition.  It is just one of many cool architectural structures that the Fes medina contains.