🎭🌆 “Stories of the Medina” – Theatrical Walking Tour of Tlemcen

🕌 Experience Overview

Step into the living history of Tlemcen through an immersive theatrical walking tour across its old medina.
This isn’t your typical guided tour — here, historical characters come to life to tell their stories in the very streets where they once lived.

Led by actors in traditional costume, this journey blends live performances, storytelling, music, and historical facts, transforming every alley into a stage, and every moment into a memory.

🧭 Sample Itinerary

• Scene 1: A troubled Islamic judge (Qadi) faces a moral dilemma – old courthouse

• Scene 2: An Andalusian weaver shares her art and secrets – artisan street

• Scene 3: A mystic muezzin recites Sufi poetry – near an ancient mosque

• Scene 4: A Zianid vizier resists a coup – palace ruins

• | 6:15 PM | Final circle with live Andalusian instrumental music
  | 6:45 PM | Traditional tea served + meet & greet with the actors

🎭 Main Characters

• 👳‍♂️ The Vizier – bold, dramatic, loyal to the soul of the city

• 👩‍🎨 The Andalusian Weaver – poetic, transmitting ancestral know-how

• 🧓 The Blind Storyteller – timeless voice guiding through eras

• 🕌 The Muezzin – spiritual guide, echoes verses of Ibn Arabi

• 👨‍⚖️ The Qadi – the moral compass caught between divine and human justice

📍 Key Stops Along the Way

• Bab El Kermadine gate

• Street of Weavers

• Old Mechouar Palace

• Sidi Boumediene Mosque Square

• El Ksar passage & hidden alleyways

⏱️ Duration

Approximately 3 hours and 45 minutes

👥 Who Is It For?

• Cultural tourists and heritage lovers

• Families (kids aged 8+)

• University and school groups

• Algerians rediscovering their history through art

💵 Price

🎟️ 1800 DA per person
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family pack (2 adults + 2 kids): 6000 DA
🎒 Includes: theatrical guided tour, live music, tea ceremony & Q&A

🎁 Optional Add-ons

📸 Traditional costume photo session: +1000 DA
📜 Illustrated Medina booklet: +500 DA