A spiritual capital, Fez hosts throughout the year several artistic and cultural events, mainly the Moussem of the patron saint of the city, Moulay Idriss, and the Moussem of Sidi Ahmed Tijani which attracts numerous believers from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharian Africa, as well as the festival of World Sacred Music. Fes, in its intellectual potential and its rich identity drawn from the Arab-Islamic civilization, was named «Capital of Islamic
Culture for the year 2007» by ISESCO.
