Souks Marrakech

Souks Marrakech


Souks of Marrakech


Market near the mosque El Mouassine
The souks of Marrakech, in Morocco particularly famous places where they intersect, extend and intertwine in the medina of Marrakech. The souks of Marrakech include a corporation more than 40,000 Moroccan craftsmen. These corporations that once governed the souks, there are only names, and some artisans and maâlems (masters) who officiate again in the middle of amounts of multi-colored stalls, bric-a-brac messy, where merchants all ages call out to passersby.


Main souks of Marrakech
Souks Tanners and Dyers: there are some shops where you can still discover skeins of colored wool, hides extended sun on straw near the tanks dyes.
Souk tallendiers: artisans working brass and red with remarkable skill.
Souk Ahiak: fabric market, and clothing.
Souk Attatine: brassware market.
Souk Cherratines: saddlers market.
Souk Chouari: market basket weavers and wood turner.
Souk Dlala: djellabas auction market.
Souk El Kebir: leather goods market.
Souk Eloustat: market fabrics, wool, wooden cutlery, etc ...
Souk Haddaddines: market blacksmiths.
The Souk Screen: market chandeliers and wrought iron lamps.
Souk Moulay Ali workshops.
Souk Nejjarines: market carpenters.
Rabia Souk: carpet market.
Souk SMATA: market slippers.
Souk Zrabia: market of leather goods, carpets and caftans.
Souk Kassabine: Spice Market
Souk jewelers.

Social organization of the souks

The souks are organized by neighborhoods and businesses.

The Amine

The amine is wise of a corporation. Democratically elected by his own, he is the mediator and conciliator of his profession incumbent upon the task of resolving conflicts or disputes between craftsmen apprentices and masters.
He retains his position as the unanimity of its peers remains, and its mandate is not limited in time.

The Mâalem
The Mâalem is a craftsman who has senior responsibility in a number of apprentices working in his workshop. Experienced several years maalems are the guardians of ancestral knowledge and the secrets of the profession.



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