Morocco: The Tiles

I get more excited about tiles than most people, so I hope you'll also enjoy a few favorite pictures of tiles we saw in Morocco. There were so many it was hard to choose which ones to photograph and then which ones to post. Above is a tiled water fountain at the school where Peter and Jessa teach.

We saw lots of tiles around town on the walls of buildings, especially in the medinas. This is a medina tile from Casablanca.

Another from Casablanca. I got so spoiled from all the tiles that I only took pictures of the ones I really liked. There were so many! And after awhile the rather ordinary tiles in the medinas gave way to the even more spectacular tiles we saw elsewhere.

This is an assortment of tiles on the ground in Chefchaouen.

The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca had some of my favorite tile work.

More tiles at the mosque. These were on a wall.

This is the minaret at the mosque. You can see the tile work throughout it, going all the way to the top.

More tiles from the grounds of the mosque.

And more.

This motif is throughout the mosque.

One last picture of tiles from the mosque.

The other place that had great tiles was the Kasbah Museum in Tangier. These were floor tiles, and are about 200 years old (as are all the tiles there).

 Wall tiles from the Kasbah Museum.

Another wall tile at the Kasbah Museum.

Tile work up high at the Kasbah Museum.

You get the idea. I got so spoiled by the spectacular tiles that I almost forgot about this picture of some fairly pedestrian tiles. It's a simple column on the street in Rabat. On our first day in Morocco I saw this and thought it was so beautifully decorated in tiles, for a simple column. So I took a picture of it but then after seeing all the tiles that were to come, this guy really fell in my rankings. Though it's still pretty in its own right. But I must admit, no match for all the other tiles in this post.

And finally, our own tiles! When we were in Chefchaouen, Peter and Jessa got us these tiles for Christmas. We put cork on the bottom and now we have tile coasters at home to remind us of them, and of all the beautiful tiles we saw in Morocco together.