Medina Mode
Explore the Medina of Tetouan with confidence. Discover its streets, gates and historic corners, and find quick help if you feel lost.
🆘 Get me out of here
Immediate help if you feel lost.
The Medina of Tetouan is a UNESCO World Heritage site — living, authentic and full of narrow alleys. This mode helps you discover it step by step, orient yourself with clear landmarks, and ask for help easily when needed.
Points that help you locate yourself
Recognizable gate / exit
Bab Okla / Bab El Oqla
One of the best-known and busiest gates of the medina. A good meeting point or clear reference to return to a known outer area.
Reference square
Gersa Kebira
A central square surrounded by craft shops and connected to several important streets of the old town. A good place to regain your bearings.
Commercial artery
Trankat
One of the medina’s main and busiest streets, with daily commercial life. If you recognize this area, you are on a major route.
Long commercial street
El Ayoun / Aaiun
One of the medina’s long streets, with varied shops and useful connections between areas. It can help you understand which direction you are moving.
Tips to orient yourself in the medina
Look at the ground
On some streets, longitudinal pavement lines help tell main streets, secondary ones, or dead-end alleys apart. Use it only as a hint and confirm with a visible landmark.
Going up, down, or walking flat?
The medina sits on a slope. Feeling whether you go up, down or across helps interpret your movement, but it does not replace a map or a visible landmark.
Look for permanent landmarks
Shops may close at night. Also look for street plates, fountains, arches, stairs, monumental gates, or squares.
Darija to orient yourself
I am lost.
أنا توهت
Ana twaht.
Where is Bab Okla?
فين كاين باب العقلة؟
Fin kayn Bab El Oqla?
Where is the exit?
فين الخروج؟
Fin l-khrouj?
How do I get to Gersa Kebira?
كيفاش نمشي لـ Gersa Kebira؟
Kifash nemshi l-Gersa Kebira?
I need a taxi.
خصني طاكسي.
Khassni taxi.
Can you help me, please?
واش ممكن تعاوني عافاك؟
Wash mumkin t‘awenni ‘afak?
I want to go back outside the medina.
بغيت نرجع برّا المدينة.
Bghit nerja‘ barra l-medina.
Thank you.
شكراً.
Shukran.
Anu
Talk to Anu for step-by-step help.
Sources & acknowledgements
The practical information in this mode was prepared from tourism and heritage documentation about the Medina of Tetouan, including Tetuania and the Architecture Guide of the Medina of Tetouan. Texts are original and do not reproduce these sources verbatim.