Palace · Medina
Palais Faraj
A Merenid palace at the edge of Fès el-Bali, with thirty-eight suites carved from centuries of stone and zellige.
The oldest living medieval city in the world. A thousand years of scholars, tanneries, leather and zawiyas.
Fès is the Kingdom's intellectual and spiritual heart. Its Medina, Fès el-Bali, is the largest car-free urban space on earth — nine thousand alleys, nine hundred mosques, twenty thousand artisans working exactly as they did under the Idrissids.
The city is not beautiful in the way Marrakech is beautiful. It is older, denser, stranger — and for the right client, more rewarding. It asks for patience and returns it in rooms the visiting eye never sees.
Our Maison chapter in Fès has cultivated three decades of relationships with the great families of the Medina. Doors open that are, for others, closed.
A Merenid palace at the edge of Fès el-Bali, with thirty-eight suites carved from centuries of stone and zellige.
A Relais & Châteaux, courtyards of bronze and cedar, a rooftop bar with a view of the Atlas.
A contemporary palace on a hill above the city — Givenchy spa, Atlas views, private pool suites.
A sixteenth-century Quranic school, restored by a princely family, opened to the Maison for entire-property stays.
A historian from the Qarawiyyin walks you through Fès el-Bali — the souks of the dyers, of the cedar-carvers, of the henna square. Private access to mosques and madrasas normally closed to non-Muslims.
Private ateliers: a brass-smith, a weaver, a ceramist of the blue-of-Fès. Each one a maalem; each one receiving you as a house guest, not a visitor.
A seven-course Fassi dinner in a courtyard, composed by a dada — the traditional master-cook of a great family. The finest Moroccan cuisine in the Kingdom, no question.
A private visit to the mosaics of Volubilis and the sacred town of Moulay Idriss, with a scholar of the period — and a long lunch in an olive grove.
A short brief from the Maison on the season, the rhythm and the essentials. Bespoke advice upon enquiry.
Tell us the dates. We will answer within the hour, in the language of your choice.
