The central square of Chefchaouen is full of inexpensive restaurants for lunch or dinner. It is a large place full of life. On this square are the kasbah (fortress) and the first mosque in the city.

This majestic Kasbah was built in the 15th century, more precisely in the year 1471, by Rachid Ben Ali. At that time, the attacks of the Christians were very repeated, to seize Morocco. This is why the resistance mobilized and Banu Rashid declared the Holy War; soon after, the same Banu family built this imposing Kasbah to protect the city. This Kasbah was made up of a mosque (Jama El Kebir) and various nearby dwellings, which were in turn surrounded and protected by a wall, thus forming the center of the town of Chefchaouen, which developed very rapidly.