
Sensory experience of Jemaa el Fna
For a thousand years, Jemaa el-Fna has served as a gathering place and market at the heart of Marrakesh. Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers come to entertain the crowds, helping to create an intoxicating atmosphere. Once the sun sets, restaurants around the square start serving hungry customers as they stroll around the plaza. Berber musicians and Gnaoua dancers begin their nightly performances, acrobats and slapstick comedians start performing all across the square, and henna tattoo artists vie for customers as storytellers, and poets pass on the oral traditions of Morocco. Declared by UNESCO as a“Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” the marketplace is an important place of cultural exchange and artistic heritage