Marrakech – square Jemaa El Fna square, major center of tourist and commercial activity
Perhaps the most famous enclave of all Morocco, and without a doubt, the nerve center of the activity of Marrakech, the Jemaa El Fna square you will surprised by its enormous dimensions despite being located in the Centre of the Medina, a true network of narrow streets and passageways.
When you visit Marrakech and you move around the historical Medina, all routes will converge to the Jemaa El Fna square, with an elongated shape stretching from the great spiritual centre of the city, the great Tower, or Minaret of the Koutoubia mosque.
The name of the Jemaa El Fna square has a meaning of Assembly or meeting, which is due to that in the past was a great arenal where outlining the bodies and the severed heads of the executed.
During your tourist stay in Marrakech, you will visit this place during the day, whenever you want to miss the incredible swarm of shops which is adjacent to the plaza Bazaar. And also during the night, when the square changes scenario and is filled with kiosks where people stand for dinner.
Therefore, when you already get to Marrakech, and you’ve settled minimally in the special pace of life in this city, plan adequately your different visits to the Jemaa El Fna square in order to enjoy its different scenarios.
During the morning, the great movement of people in the square is also disturbed by the continuing wandering of cars, motorbikes and bikes, so you have to have much attention when it comes to get around this large Esplanade.
Stores surrounding the square already show a great atmosphere. An obliged appointment is to go to one of the viewpoints that have restaurants and cafés surrounding the square with panoramic views of the same to see the continuous bustle there is in it.
In addition, the call from the speakers to the successive religious offices of several mosques which are distributed by square Jemaa El Fna square in Marrakech cause a continuous movement of parishioners by it.
When you walk through the square throughout the day, you move under the sound of the flute of the snake charmers. Or between amaestradores of apes and other exotic characters like the aguadores or sellers of dentures. And always with the invitation to take a juice orange or dates in any of the numerous stalls that are distributed through the square.
Average afternoon you look surprised by the arrival of a maelstrom of wagons with metal structures.
Soon you will notice that with this chaos, as every day of the year, is going to mount a wide area of beach bars of food, where soon we leave smoke Street kitchens prepared to feed the thousands of people throughout the night will come to the Jemaa El Fna square for dinner.