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The Imperial Heritage of Meknes

The Imperial Heritage of Meknes

Meknes · Morocco

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Explore the grand scale of Morocco's imperial architecture and royal legacies. You will walk past towering gates, serene historical gardens, and sacred mosques. This route reveals the ambition and artistry of the city's royal past.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail

    Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail

    The final resting place of Morocco's longest-reigning sultan, built from plundered palace marble.

  2. Borj Belkari / برج بلقاري

    A seventeenth-century bastion tower turned museum of Rif pottery.

  3. Bab el-Khemis

    Bab el-Khemis

    The 'Thursday Gate' that once guarded the Jewish quarter and the court of Moulay Ismail.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Bab Jdid باب الجديد

    Bab Jdid باب الجديد

    Bab Jdid, an attraction in Meknes, Morocco.

  6. Great Mosque of Meknes

    Great Mosque of Meknes

    The spiritual anchor of the medina, where Almoravid foundations meet Alawi grandeur.

  7. Dar Jamai Museum

    Dar Jamai Museum

    A 19th-century palace of fallen viziers turned into the National Museum of Music.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.