The workshops, kitchens, guesthouses and guides people name when someone asks them where to go — added and voted on by the people who have been. Read freely; add or vote with a free account.
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Almost everything visitors spend in Chefchaouen is spent in the same few hundred metres — Bab El Ain to Outa el-Hammam to Ras El Maa — between about ten in the morning and five in the afternoon. The weavers, the woodworkers and the cheese cooperatives are mostly somewhere else.
This is the open list of places worth walking to: the workshops, the kitchens and the family-run houses that people name when someone asks them where to go. Anyone can read it. Adding a pick or a vote takes a free account, which is what keeps it a list of real places rather than an advertising board.
We have twice tried to publish a directory of the town's cooperatives and could not verify enough of them from outside Morocco to put names and addresses on a page honestly. If you know one — what it makes, who runs it, how to find the door — this is where that belongs.
Workshops and cooperatives — who actually makes it here?
The weavers, the woodworkers, the leather and the wool, the jben cheese cooperatives out in the hills. Say what they make and roughly where they are — a gate, a street, a landmark is more use here than an address.
Riads and guesthouses run by the family that owns them. Worth saying whether they meet you at the medina gate and carry bags — on lanes this steep and this narrow, that is the whole difference in an arrival.
Anyone can read this page. Adding a pick or voting takes a free account — that keeps the list honest. Picks are public the moment they post, and the agent reviews them regularly; if something here looks like spam or is plain wrong, use the report form at the bottom of the page.