Souk Semmarine

This guide to Souk Semmarine in Marrakesh starts with camel caravans stumbling in off the Sahara in the eleventh century, dust-crusted and needing one thing before food or rest: a saddle mended. It traces how that need gave the lane its name and its first trade, and follows what has and hasn't survived as the saddlemakers gave way to spice and leather stalls under the same slatted wooden canopy. Look up at that canopy as you walk through, still scattering sunlight across the stalls the way it did centuries ago.