Morocco – Guide with tips for your holiday

Morocco has been in its history by different cultures. Excavations were relics of the Phoenician, Greek, Carthaginian and Roman civilizations discovered. The Arabs led in Morocco a written language, which is still in business and cultural area dominates. West African cultural influences, especially in dance, arrived on trade links to the country.

In Morocco are several cultural monuments to the list of UNESCO World Heritage site were taken. These include the towns of Fez, Meknes and Marrakesh, the fortified town of Ait-Ben-Haddou, the Medina of Tetouan (Titawin) and Essouira (Mogador) and the excavation site Volubilis.

The education of 9 years was introduced in 1963. There are fewer girls than boys at the school participated, with all but the ratio gradually aligned. The enrollment rate is around 80 percent, a rate of 100 percent is the goal of the Moroccan education policy. At secondary school age attend 39.3 percent of all children in the classroom. Instruction is Arabic, in secondary schools is also in the French language. The literacy level is despite strong promotion of education only at 52.6 percent.

Traditional education is at the University of Al-Qarawiyin taught in Fez, which already 859 AD was founded. Modern education is the Mohammed V University (founded in 1957) in Rabat, the Mohammed Ben Abdellah University (1974) in Fez, the Cadi Ayyad University, (1978) in Marrakesh, the Hassan II University (1976) in Casablanca and Mohammed I. University (1978) in Oujda and the private Al-Akawein University in Ifrane. In Rabat are also higher for the fine arts, management sciences, agriculture and economy, and in Tetouan, there is a university for folk art and craft, was founded in 1921.