This is the Djema'a Al-Fna (the Assembly of the Dead). Our guidebook says it is "one of the world's most frantically exotic squares" and we have to agree. Sultans used to behead criminals and display their remains here. Notice the cluster of people on the left hand side of the photo, gathered around a story teller. There are thousands of people swarming the square anytime in the afternoon/evening. We saw snakecharmers, 'dentists', musicians, gymnasts...

This is the Djema'a Al-Fna (the Assembly of the Dead). Our guidebook says it is "one of the world's most frantically exotic squares" and we have to agree. Sultans used to behead criminals and display their remains here. Notice the cluster of people on the left hand side of the photo, gathered around a story teller. There are thousands of people swarming the square anytime in the afternoon/evening. We saw snakecharmers, 'dentists', musicians, gymnasts...
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