Country guide · MA
6 destinations & festivals · 3 etiquette rules
Before you go
Proselytising can mean a fine or up to 3 years in prison; publicly criticising Islam can mean up to 2 years.
Verified Oct 19, 2026Source: GOV.UK: Morocco travel advice
It causes offence; same-sex intimacy can be prosecuted in Morocco.
Verified Oct 19, 2026Source: GOV.UK: Morocco travel advice
It offends people who are fasting.
Verified Oct 19, 2026Source: GOV.UK: Morocco travel advice
Places & local life
A North African stew slow-cooked in a pointed clay pot — the dish is named after the pot.
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An 11th-century earthen village — a thousand-year-old staging post on the trade route from the Sahara to Marrakesh, and a location for Gladiator…
A 210-m minaret, the tallest in Africa, and prayer halls built right over the sea — one of the few Moroccan mosques open to non-Muslims.
A mountain town painted blue since the 1930s, where the culture of Andalusian exiles meets Berber mountain culture.
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Coloured dye vats in use since the 11th century, in the same city as the world's oldest university, founded in 859 and still teaching.
UNESCO Oral and Intangible Heritage — a thousand-year-old open-air theatre of storytellers, snake charmers and Gnawa musicians.
