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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. [3]
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.
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-Settat (Arabic: الدار البيضاء - سطات, romanized: ad-dār al-bayḍāʾ - siṭṭāt) is one of the twelve administrative regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 20,166 km 2 and recorded a population of 6,861,739 in the 2014 Moroccan census, [1] 69% of which lived in urban areas. [2] The capital of the region is ...
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 .
Throughout the 20th century, architecture and urban development in Casablanca evolved in a way that was simultaneously specific to the city's contexts, and consonant with international ideas. Anfa, as the settlement in what is now Casablanca was known, was built by the Romans according to the Descrittione dell’Africa of Leo Africanus. [1]
Casablanca Finance City Tower (Arabic: برج القطب المالي للدار البيضاء) also known as the CFC Tower is a 28–story office building in Casablanca, Morocco. Built between 2016 ans 2019, the tower stands at 136 m (446 ft) tall and is the fourth tallest building in Morocco. [ 2 ]
Grand Casablanca or Greater Casablanca (Arabic: الدار البيضاء الكبرى) was one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco that existed from 1997 to 2015. Located in coastal northwestern Morocco, it was the most densely populated region and covered an area of 1,117 km 2 .