El Fna jemaa of Marrkech

Place El Fna Jemaa is a very famous public square in the southwest of the medina of Marrakech in Morocco. This high traditional, popular and lively place attracts over one million visitors a year. In the twelfth century, the Jemaa el Fna was a place of justice and the sentences were pupliquement applied. By the second half of the sixteenth sièce, activities and functions of the site has changed. Thus, it is described by the Spanish author Marmol Carvajal as a cosmopolitan place where reigns a strong commercial activity .. The current name of the Jemaa el Fna only appears at the beginning of the seventeenth century in historical texts. Indeed, the historian Abdurrahman Es-Saadi, gives a plausible explanation: the Saadian Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur had planned to build a large mosque. It would have given him the mosque name of peace "Jemaa el Hna". "Jemaa" meaning "meeting place" and "El Hna" quietude. Then a plague would have decimated part of the population, which the king, and prevented the construction of the building. It would be after this event that the place would have received the name of the place of the destroyed mosque "Jemaa el Fna". For centuries, the Jemaa El Fna square was bustling and s'set registered in Morocco cultivation . Since she is qualified to show place in the twetfth century. From the twentieth century many buildings are built and instead begins to take the look from today. In 1985,jemaa El- Fna square is inscribed on the world heritage list.