| On the road Marrakesh Fez |
| Khenifra, presentation |
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| Une cité rouge dans une terre rouge : telle apparaît Khenifra quand on l’aborde du Sud ou de l’Est. Etape pratique entre Fès et Marrakech. |
A red city in a red ground: this is how Khenifra appears when it is approached from the south or from the East. Practical Stage between Fez and Marrakesh. Built at the altitude of 830 m on the two banks of the Oum er-Rbia wadi, Khenifra has a strategic location on the Atlas road and preserved its old aspect of military city (at the end of the 17th century, Moulay Ismail had built there a Kasbah to protect it, as well as a bridge). To see: on the road of Ain-Leuh, the Sources of |
| Oum er-Rbia (the longest Moroccan river), which spouts out in cascade from the limestone cliffs in a continual boiling. |
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