Casablanca

For other uses, see Casablanca (disambiguation).

A view on the Boulevard de Paris in central Casablanca

The Parc de la Ligue Arabe in Casablanca

Casablanca (classical Arabic name: الدار البيضاء, "the white house"; Spanish:Casablanca, "whitehouse") is a city in western Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean.

With 2.95 million people (September 2004 census), Casablanca is Morocco's biggest city.

Casablanca has a Mediterranean Climate with hot dry summers and wet rainy winters.

Education

• EMLYON Business School
• Toulouse Business School

Casablanca Media

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  The Mausoleum of Allal al-Qairawani, which local legend associates with the naming of Casablanca.

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  Casablanca in 1572, still called "Anfa" in this coloured engraving, although the Portuguese had already renamed it "Casa Branca" – "White House" – later Hispanicised to "Casablanca".

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  Résidence or mansion erected for Hubert Lyautey in the Medina shortly after the establishment of the protectorate, designed by architect Pierre Bousquet

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  Place de France (now United Nations Square) in 1917. With its landmark Clock Tower, this space became a contact point between what the colonists called the ville indigène to the left—comprising the Mellah and the Medina—and the European nouvelle ville to the right.

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  Henri Prost's plans to extend 4ème Zouaves Street (now Félix Houphouët-Boigny Street) from the port to the Place de France (now United Nations Square), part of his redesigns of Casablanca's urban landscape.

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  Marine shoreline of Casablanca

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  Crossing Boulevard Hassan I with the Avenue des FAR, seen from the place of the United Nations, Casablanca

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  Casablanca Finance City

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  Nabila Rmili, current mayor of Casablanca

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  8 prefectures, 8 governors

Other websites

• Official web site of Casablanca Archived 2011-05-12 at the Wayback Machine