Wedged among the ancient buildings and serpentine passageways of Fez’s Old Medina in Morocco is a grid of stone ... This is Chouara, an 11 th-century tannery that still operates as it did ...

Reporting from Fez, Morocco — The sun was low over the souks ... Another sign of how little has changed: The Chouara leather tannery operates much as it did 800 years ago, using pigeon poop ...

Considered the cultural capital and spiritual center of Morocco, Fez is also the oldest imperial ... One of those spots is the Chaouwara Tannery, believed to be the oldest operating tannery ...

and no trip to Fez should skip the Chouara Tannery. Leather hides have been washed and dyed in this extraordinary complex of baths since at least the 16th century. My favourite museum in Morocco ...

Then sign on to a savvy local tour: the four-hour “Hidden Fez” offered by Plan-it-Morocco, a travel company ... the odoriferous tannery quarter and other places you would probably never ...

As I enter, I glimpse traces of the Morocco that was, as well as the Morocco that is racing ever faster towards change. The medina in Fez is the ... my way to Chouara Tannery, the largest and ...

In a glowing travel feature, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph invites readers to explore the spiritual and artistic ...

Beneath technicolour cedarwood ceilings, maps show Moroccan empires that once encompassed nearly the entire Iberian peninsula ...