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Meknes & Volubilis
This morning, you will take a short drive to Meknes, another former Moroccan capital built around 1672 by King Moulay Ismail and once home to a substantial Jewish community. You will visit the Bab El Mansour gate with its impressive size, the vast granaries, the stables that housed hundreds of horses, and the nearly ten-acre pool once used to irrigate the Royal Palace gardens. You will also visit the Jewish quarter, its two old cemeteries, and the former Hebraic Talmud Torah School. After a lunch break, you will continue on to Volubilis, Morocco's most significant archaeological site, known for its detailed mosaics and monuments. Over 2,000 years ago, a Jewish population resided here, as indicated by inscriptions on tombstones in either Hebrew or Greek. In the late afternoon, you will drive back to Fez across the Rif Mountains' foothills.