Day trip from Fes to Volubilis Moulay Idriss&Meknes

Fes excursions to Volubilis Meknes and Moulay Idriss
Our Fes excursions to 2,000 years up to now begin at 9 o’clock. Out of your lodge, we drive throughout the Sais Plain to the great Roman ruins at Volubilis. Volubilis is basically historic olive press, mansions, unbelievable mosaics, monumental arches and Corinthian columns. So that you’ll have an actual sense of Roman life-style and of that of a subsequent medieval Berber city. The location accommodates the Mansion containing the mosaic of the Labours of Hercules, the Baths of Gallienus and Baths of Discussion board with their fragmentary mosaics. The Home of Orpheus and its Dolphin mosaic and Orpheus Delusion; the Cortege of Venus a lot of whose mosaicS. Though we could solely see from the surface but will get to see the medallions of Bacchus, Diana and the Abduction of Hylas; the Gordian Palace with its bathhouse and pooled courtyards.

Volubilis contains essentially Roman vestiges of a fortified municipium built on a commanding site at the foot of the Jebel Zerhoun. Covering an area of 42 hectares, it is of outstanding importance demonstrating urban development and Romanisation at the frontiers of the Roman Empire and the graphic illustration of the interface between the Roman and indigenous cultures. Because of its isolation and the fact that it had not been occupied for nearly a thousand years, it presents an important level of authenticity. It is one of the richest sites of this period in North Africa, not only for its ruins but also for the great wealth of its epigraphic evidence.

Just around 60 kilometers west of Fez and 5 kilometers away from the Amazigh (Berber) and Roman remains of Volubilis, embedded in green hills and surrounded by olive groves and cacti, lies the town of Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, Morocco’s spiritual capital.

But it’s remarkable history and significance within Moroccan culture is just the beginning of what makes Moulay Idriss a highly interesting tourist destination.

Meknès, city, north-central Morocco. It lies about 70 miles (110 km) from the Atlantic Ocean and 36 miles (58 km) southwest of Fès. One of Morocco’s four imperial cities, it was founded in the 10th century by the Zanātah tribe of the Meknassa Imazighen (Berbers) as Meknassa al-Zaytūn (“Meknès of the Olives”), a group of villages among olive groves; it grew around Takarart, an 11th-century Almoravid citadel. Meknès became the Moroccan capital in 1673 under Mawlāy Ismāʿīl, who built palaces and mosques that earned for Meknès the name “Versailles of Morocco.” His city wall, fortified by four-cornered towers and pierced by nine ornamented gates, still stands. After his death the city declined. In 1911 it was occupied by the French, who built a new quarter, separated from the old by the Bou Fekrane River. Meknès has massive buildings of a heavy splendour, the Roua (stables said to have housed 12,000 horses), and celebrated gardens irrigated by water from a 10-acre 4-hectare artificial lake.

• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

• Day trip from Fes to Volubilis Moulay Idriss&Meknes
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• This Tour is Provided by Morocco Cooking.
• Tour Timezone & Starts at Africa/Casablanca.
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• Maximum 15 Travelers is accepted for booking.