Jamaa El Fna is not any space, it is a locus of charm, an open area of culture and Art at large. You feel it is a hive. It is stated that times of yore humans of Morocco had in every city a square. In it they meet up, there were gifted storytellers and wits. This is to prove that those people are into art and entertainment in its everydayness. It is true, in Meknes there is still a square but not to be compared to Jamaa El Fna. The latter, is quite a non-organized way to entertain people and to entertain people in unison.

Most of the people in Morocco are poor, they cannot afford paying tickets to enjoy a movie in some cinema space. It is a matter of culture either, they, most of them, have no that culture of going to cinemas and catching up with brand new cinematic outputs releases. Hopping in the evenings to square would be one of the unforgettable experiences for local dwellers for tourists either. It is common to see people from different parts of the world, from all walks of life, gathered all of them, strolling, yet rather, Jamaa El Fna remains the connecting sublime point. Cafés as well as restaurants rooftops terraces can serve visitors well to enjoy the view over the square and of the Koutoubia.

There are scattered speculations about the originality of the coinage, Jamaa El Fna. We don’t know for sure why it was called so. It was translated as assembly of the dead, of the speculations is that the square used to be a place where they execute criminals and thieves. Nothing is certain as I stated in the beginning, nothing but scattered speculation, what counts in the first place is the essence and the very heritage of the square as well as the performance that takes place on a daily basis and it is a source of pleasure and joy for visitors for free.

The place is still marked with its deepened sense of exotica, snake charmers playing their flutes at cruelly de-fanged cobras. One can state that the city of lights combines between exotica and modernity, for off Jamaa El Fna is La Moumounia, that is, if you are well-to-do, you can hop and make it there, therefore, live nights and days of yours dreams in that luxurious space. In the square, one might spot street doctors, they cure people by means of their herbs, the can sell them a number of drugs, aphrodisiacs, they are ready to serve you well. Their recipes and medicines are affordable. In the heart of the place, one may spot also, Henna ladies. They speak different languages, as that is helpful to interact with visitors, to persuade them to have a seat and see their hands or feet being tattooed, hennaed.

One should not be taken aback to see a set of humans called Fortune/ chance tellers, like soothsayers. The y can tell you about your past, your present, your future, your happiness, your sadness, your quagmires, women you date and the rest. Roughly written, they can read into your life, sketch out, tell you what is going to happen in the future, for instance, you are going to make a lot of money, or you can lost the amounts of money you have, you are going to get married or you will stay single your whole life, your wife is cheating on you or simply she is a faithful angel in the abode, all that can be figured out by a fortune teller in the heart of the square in Marrakesh city. That fella is but a man under his umbrella, sitting there waiting for potential clients.