This 8-day grand loop from Tangier covers five imperial cities (Rabat, Marrakech, Meknes, Fes) plus Casablanca, Roman ruins, and the blue pearl of Chefchaouen. It’s a fast-paced, comprehensive introduction to Morocco’s Atlantic coast, southern cultural capital, northern Roman heritage, and Rif Mountains – all in just over a week.
Our 8 days from Tangier begin with your arrival at the port or airport of Tangier. You will meet your driver/guide and depart toward Asilah, a fortified city on the north-western tip of Morocco, 42 km south of Tangier. The Phoenicians probably built it as a trading port around 1500 BC. The city has the appearance of a Greek Aegean town and serves as a beautiful tourist resort with white buildings. You can admire the Portuguese ramparts, the ancient doors, the flowery streets of the medina, and various buildings in Islamic and Andalusian style. Asilah is also famous for its long beaches of fine, golden sand. Free dinner. Overnight in a riad or hotel.
After breakfast departure in the direction of Rabat. Rabat is the capital of Morocco and is a modern city overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Besides being the seat of government it is the main centre of Moroccan cuisine and architecture.
After Casablanca, Rabat is the largest city in the country. The medina is picturesque and characterized by narrow, cobbled alleys, art galleries and local craft shops. We recommend for a short visit the Hassan Tower, a minaret that was once part of the homonymous mosque that was supposed to be the highest in the world but was never finished, because it was destroyed in 1755 following a strong earthquake that had the epicentre in Lisbon.
Today the bases of the columns remain of the mosque. The isolated minaret is 44 meters high and is reminiscent of the famous Giralda tower in Seville. Opposite is the Mausoleum of Mohammed V which houses the remains of the King of Morocco and his two sons, King Hassan II and Prince Abdullah. Continue in the afternoon to Casablanca. Free dinner. Overnight in riad/hotel.
After breakfast, you will make a short visit to Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco, where most of the country’s foreign trade takes place. First, the city lies along the west coast and resembles a southern European centre. However, builders constructed it in 1906 on the site where a 7th-century Berber town once stood, which an earthquake later destroyed in the second half of the 18th century.
Just outside the medina, you will find the French-built Nouvelle Ville, full of gardens and avenues, shopping centres, hotels, banks, and shops. By far the most important building to visit is the Hassan II Mosque, the largest after those of Medina and Mecca. In the afternoon, you will continue to Marrakech and arrive in the evening. You will then have free dinner and spend the night in a riad or hotel.
One of the major cities of Morocco, Marrakech is the most important of the four Imperial Cities and is located at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. After breakfast departure with the official guide and the driver for the discovery of the city also known as “Pearl of the South” and “Red or Ochre City” for the red walls that surround it and for the various buildings of this colour built in the same period using red stones and sand.
Visit to the Bahia Palace, El Badi Palace, the Saadien Tombs, the ancient Koranic school of Ben Youssef, the Menara Gardens, the Mosque and the Koutoubia Minaret. Short stop for lunch and a mint tea in one of the terraces overlooking the Jemaa el-Fna square, continuation to the Mosque and the Koutoubia Minaret, the Majorelle Gardens with the possibility to visit the new museum just opened, dedicated to Yves Saint Laurent. Return in the afternoon to your riad/hotel.
After breakfast, you will depart from Marrakech and drive to Meknes, where you will stop for a short visit. Notably, Meknes is the most recent and modest of the four Imperial Cities, and it served as the capital of Morocco under the reign of Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif. Moreover, its name derives from a Berber tribe called Miknasa, mentioned in Arabian medieval sources.
As a result, many also know it as the “Versailles of Morocco” or “the city with a hundred minarets.” In addition to the souks – which are not as large as those of Fès or Marrakech but equally interesting and lively – this city offers beautiful buildings, lovely gardens, houses with balconies in the Jewish quarter, and the narrow streets of the old Mellah. Finally, you will arrive in Fès in the evening, where you will enjoy dinner and spend the night in a riad or hotel.
Fès is considered the true stronghold of the culture and identity of Morocco, located in the bottom of a fertile valley about 350 m above sea level. The old city, with its markets and mosques, is considered one of the most attractive centres of the entire Islamic world. Among the major cities of Morocco, Fès is the oldest of the four Imperial Cities and owes this prestige to its secular political prevalence and the importance of its ancient university on culture and art.
After breakfast, departure with the official guide and the driver for the discovery of the city, Fès is divided into New Town, that is the imperial city built starting from 1200 where there are the station, the Royal Palace and the Jewish quarter, the Old Town or Medina, the oldest walled part of Fès, a real labyrinth of narrow streets with markets of all kinds and the Ville Nouvelle, the area where there are restaurants, bars, cafes and bookshops.
We will visit the Madrasa Bou Inania, the Al Karaouine Mosque (closed to non-Muslims), the Medersa Attarine, the Najjarine square famous for its magnificent fountain decorated with mosaics, the Mausoleum of Moulay Idriss and the tombs of the Merenids, We will then reach the famous tanneries in Fès and visit a pottery factory. Return in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight in riad/hotel.
After breakfast departure for Volubilis, the most famous Roman archaeological site in Morocco and included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites, short visit to the city. Continuation for Chefchaouen, the city is called the “Blue Pearl” because all buildings, doors, windows, fountains and streets are painted in different shades of blue. The city was considered sacred for centuries and it was even forbidden to enter foreigners.
Only recently, in the ’50s, things have changed and the city has become a tourist destination that few people know. The medina is a maze of narrow streets and coloured blue and the reason is purely religious and not aesthetic. Inhabited by Berber peoples, it was founded by Spaniards who came from Andalusia, which is why the ancient part of the city resembles the Andalusian villages with narrow streets and walls full of flowers.
Most of its inhabitants still speak Spanish today. In the centre of the old city you will see the Outa-el-Hammam Square where the Tarik-Ben-Ziad Mosque is located, which hides an octagonal-inspired minaret inspired by the Torre de Oro in Seville and a splendid fortress. The new city is built further down. Free dinner Overnight in riad/hotel.
After breakfast departure in the direction of Tangier where our 8 days from Tangier ends.
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