Stunning Natural

What comes to you to Casablanca? The same film with Humphrey Bogart, of course. Those who until a few years, however, went searching for clues in the city, was bitterly disappointed, only in poster form, one hit here and there on the smart actor. The movie is filmed entirely in California studios. But now it looks different. Curiously, seizes the city, even in the film-to quote. Compared to the old town is a “Rick’s Café Américain” was created, although the now “means Casablanca Bar”, but actually quite close to the atmosphere of the film is at hand model.





Generally consists Casablanca little scene and is frequented by diplomats and other business travelers.
Casablanca until 1900 was still a manageable small town, so it is today with just under three million inhabitants the largest city of northwest Africa, with its belief in progress and a major driving force for Morocco. The rapid development of the metropolis, however, also brought with it huge social disparities. Until the 70’s, these were also apparent at the cityscape, to the enormous “bidonvilles” – the slums. Some of these have been replaced by apartment blocks.

As before, the port and industrial city with a tremendous pace to grow and now has a stake of about 80 percent of the industry in Morocco.
As an important economic center of Casablanca attracting international conferences to be held in the opulent rooms of luxurious residences, a stark contrast to the poverty and hopelessness that can be found in other places. Even today it is proud of the Anfa conference, which in 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle met with King Mohamed V and Hassan II, the then young prince.





When you walk through the city, which falls very interesting Habbous on-quarter. If the rest of the city, with its boulevards, French colonial, also meet French town houses of the 30s and 40s and many office complexes, a more subtle, so one could find the Medina worthy of a maze of alleys. Shops and houses are completely mixed, and you can immerse yourself for a while in the streets and throngs of people, goods and perfumes.





Casablancas is the most imposing landmark modern Grand Mosque, the namesake of the now late King Hassan II is. With their 200-meter-high minaret and the laser beam reaching 30 kilometers at night it is visible from afar and attracts pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. According to the Mosque of Mecca, they come with their size directly to second place. 10,500 are in the building designed by French architect Michel Pinseau room and fit in this place of spiritual library in the middle of the city feel doubly safe: Earthquake is the landmark of Morocco too. Cut off from the world you look at the complex but not present. So he is home, for example, the largest theological library of the Islamic hemisphere, which is electronically linked to the newest technical level and with all the other libraries of this size. In addition, there is a university in the building, also a National Museum and several classical bathrooms.