Marrakech Medina Private Half-day Tour

Get your dose of Marrakech culture and history with our guided tour Marrakech. In this historical tour, you will explore beyond the red walls to find out about the architecture, traditions, history, and culture of Morocco’s most magnificent city. Our Marrakech Medina guided tour is a half day walking tour. It will lead you to explore this city’s historical wonders, such as Koutoubia Mosque, Saadian Tombs, Bahia Palace, Jewish neighborhood and then off to explore its colorful narrow streets of the Medina, leading us to the sensational Jamaa Elfna Square. 

After meeting your guide, you will start your Marrakech medina guided tour. This is a cultural history exploring tour through the streets of Marrakech to the 12th century Koutoubia mosque. Its height (70m tall) makes of the Mosque’ minaret a landmark for navigating the city. The mosque’s interior is not open to non-Muslims, but you can still take a walk in its garden. As we walk around it, you will learn from your guide much about its history and the 5 pillars of Islam, along with other religious matters. 

From here, we head Afterwards our walk to see Bab Agnaou that is one of the historical landmarks. From here we get inside the Kasbah quarter that hosted the royal family and the chancellors of Alomohad dinasty. After having a rich talk about The Moroccan society, economy, political system and culture, we head towards to see the Saadian Tombs. Sultan Ahmed El-Mansour of the Saadian dynasty who ruled Morocco from 1554 to 1659.

We will then take a short walk in the Mellah, a historical Jewish quarter before we reach the Bahia Palace. The gorgeous palace will take you back to the 19th as it exhibits the Moroccan and Islamic art. We carry out with our historical and cultural journey through the labyrinthine Medina streets, until we rreach Jamaa Elfna Square, the World Heritage site for culture as Unesco Named it. The lopsided square is the main stage for Moroccan Halqa (the art of storytelling), jugglers, snake charmers, pop musicians and tens of chefs stir vats of steaming snails!