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In 1949, the musician Salim Halali settled in Morocco and transformed an old café in Maârif into a prestigious cabaret, Le Coq d'Or, where Warda Al-Jazairia and El-Haja El-Hamdaouia performed. [3] In the neighborhood is also located the Mohammed V stadium which holds room for 44'000 spectators. [4] Rue du Jura in 2013, before renovations.
Casablanca became a laboratory for the principles of urbanisme d’avant-garde, including a trenchant division and complete disassociation between the medina and the ville européenne. [22] For the colonial administration, the Moroccan medina was at once a breeding ground of disease to be contained, an antiquity of the past with Oriental charm ...
Place de France around 1917, with the clock tower and State Bank of Morocco branch at center Henri Prost's 1923 study for the Place de France. The area outside the walls of the old medina that is now United Nations Square, used to be the location of the Souq Kbir ( سوق كبير ), also referred to as le Grand Socco , before French colonization .
The Central Market was the most important marketplace in Casablanca's European ville nouvelle. The Moroccan nationalist resistance fighter Muhammad Zarqtuni bombed the Central Market on December 24, 1953, after French forces forced Sultan Muhammad V into exile on August 20, 1953—which was Eid al-Adha .
The Liberty Building (Arabic: عمارة الحرية, French: Immeuble Liberté), also known as "17 Stories" (17 étages or dix-sept étages), is a 17-story residential tower in Casablanca, Morocco. [1] [2] [3] It was designed by Léonard Morandi and built between 1949 and 1951. [4]
The two towers are one of the tallest buildings in Casablanca. They rise through 115 meters (377 ft) to a total of 28 floors each. The total floor area is 93,000 m 2 (1,001,044 sq ft), with a 7.2-meter-high (24 ft) atrium. There are 15 elevators (lifts) in the Twin Center. The towers were inaugurated in 1998 and became a landmark in Casablanca.
Moulay Rachid (مولاي رشيد) is a district and southeastern suburb of Casablanca, in the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. The district, named after Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, covers an area of 13.38 square kilometres (5.7 square miles) and as of 2004 had 384,044 inhabitants. [1] It lies to the east of Sbata.