This colourful landscape depicts the city of Fez, the second largest city in Morocco. Found in Northern inland Morocco, Fez is surrounded by hills and the old city itself is centred around the Fez River.

In this landscape Munro has painted the old Medina city with the rolling hills behind. In the distance the artist has depicted the walls of Fez that surround the old town Medina. These stretch for five miles and were built to protect the Moroccan city from their attacking enemies in the 8th Century.

Fez has retained its status as the country’s cultural and spiritual centre, containing countless madrasas, fondouks, palaces, residences, mosques and fountains. Its tangled network of lanes is home to extraordinary Islamic architecture. In this painting the viewer is confronted with a sea of rooftops, all different in form and use, together creating a patchwork of shapes that cover the bustling working city. The vibrant, but contained, colour palette used by Munro effectively conveys the enduing heat that the city and its nearby natural environment has learnt to endure.