Casablanca

For other uses, see Casablanca (disambiguation).

File:Boulevard de Paris, Casablanca.jpg

A view on the Boulevard de Paris in central Casablanca

File:Parc de la Ligue Arabe, Casablanca.jpg

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

• ضريح علال القيرواني 1915.jpg

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

• Braun Anfa UBHD.jpg

  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".

• Casa residenceFrance.jpg

  Résidencecode: fr is deprecated or mansion erected for Hubert Lyautey in the Medina shortly after the establishment of the protectorate, designed by architect Pierre Bousquet

• ساحة فرنسا الدار البيضاء 1917.jpg

  Place de Francecode: fr is deprecated (now United Nations Square) in 1917. With its landmark Clock Tower, this space became a contact point between what the colonists called the ville indigènecode: fr is deprecated to the left—comprising the Mellahcode: fr is deprecated and the Medina—and the European nouvelle villecode: fr is deprecated to the right.

• تخطيط الدار البيضاء من تصميم هنري بروست.jpg

  Henri Prost's plans to extend 4ème Zouavescode: fr is deprecated Street (now Félix Houphouët-Boignycode: fr is deprecated Street) from the port to the Place de Francecode: fr is deprecated (now United Nations Square), part of his redesigns of Casablanca's urban landscape.

• Bord de la mer de ville casablanca.jpg

  Marine shoreline of Casablanca

• Downtown, Casablanca.jpg

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

• CFC Casa Tower.jpg

  Casablanca Finance City

• Nabila Rmili (cropped).jpg

  Nabila Rmili, current mayor of Casablanca

• Préfectures de Casablanca.png

  8 prefectures, 8 governors

Other websites

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