The Djemaa el Fna ŷâmi' fanâ' in French: Jemaa el-Fna) is the main square and the most famous place in the Moroccan city of Marrakech. It rises a few meters from the Koutoubia Mosque, which is dominated by its minaret. Surrounding the square are also several mosques, more modest, accompanying the Koutoubia.
There are several hypotheses about the name of the square; by some [citation needed] means "assembly of annihilation" as it was the place where it rarely killed those who transgress; it is also suggested [citation needed] that "assembly" or "meeting" is a macabre reference to the fact that the cut of the executed around the square, as if they were holding a meeting heads were displayed. Other theories suggest that, since the word also has the meaning ŷâmi' mosque (mosque or mosque), could mean "place of the destroyed mosque," referring to the Almoravid mosque that he must rise there.
The square is large and is surrounded on all sides, except for one, full of the medina souks classified by their main activity. At the edges of the square have established a number of cafés, such as coffee France, and restaurants of all categories who open their terraces to the spectacle that is formed in this monumental scene.
Everything revolves around Marrakech Djemaa el Fna. Thousands of people gathered at this public space by filling it with color, culture and business are given. Storytellers, teachers expounding his teachings, snake charmers, dancers, dentists, sellers of fruit juices, acrobats, letter writers, drawers of water ... an infinite number of activities and people coming together and are crowding the square and its adjacent callejeas as it is evening.
Specialized food stations, each in its making, flooded with the evening part of the square, which is illuminated by hundreds of lights and flooded with lots of smoke odors.
In 2001 Unesco declared and registered in 2008 The Cultural Space of Jemaa el-Fna in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage humankind.
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