Place des Ferblantiers (Tinsmithing Square) is the metalworking heart of the southern medina — a small square ringed by open-fronted workshops where craftsmen punch, bend, and solder tin, brass, and iron into the lanterns, lamps, and decorative panels that have become the signature export of the Marrakesh craft economy. The craft is entirely functional and entirely public: the workshops face the square and visitors can watch at close range.
The square is also a transit point between the Mellah and the Bahia Palace, and a natural place to pause and eat from the food stalls that set up in the evenings. The lanterns made here are sold directly from the workshops at prices considerably lower than the tourist shops of the main souks. Buying directly from a craftsman's workshop — where the goods were actually made — is both economically sensible and more satisfying.