Morocco again3 Casablanca just a stroll

Rick’s Café Casablanca is a restaurant, bar

and café opened March 1, 2004.The place was

designed to recreate the bar made famous by Humphrey Bogart

and Ingrid Bergman in the movie classic Casablanca

For more than 60 years, tourists visiting Casablanca

tried to visit Rick’s Café American only to discover that Warner Brothers had built the entire set on a

studio back lot

Casablanca the film wasn't based on Casablanca the city. And it wasn't filmed in Morocco, but in a Hollywood studio 6,000 miles away. So Rick's Cafe - despite its enormous grand piano and roulette table - is to Casablanca what Planet Hollywood is to California - a big, embellished fantasy

Set in an old courtyard-style mansion built against the walls of the Old Medina of Casablanca, the restaurant – piano bar is filled with architectural and decorative details reminiscent of the filmThere is an authentic 1930’s Pleyel piano and As Time Goes By is a common request to the in-house pianistRick’s Café Casablanca was developed by Kathy Kriger, a former American diplomat in Morocco. The restaurant is housed in a traditional Moroccan grand mansion with a central courtyard or a Riad, built in 1930Because of the age of the structure and proximity to the sea, the mansion was totally restored and renovated

Owned by The Usual Suspects company, this Casablanca landmark is

usually described as the real Rick’s

Café, finally bringing the

legendary “Gin Joint” of cinema fame to life in

today’s Casablanca

Boulevard Sour Jdid

Morocco is crawling with cats. They are everywhere, in every mosque, medina, market square, store, under your chair at the restaurant, cats under cars, cats on roofs, …One of the reasons for their profusion is that cats are revered in the Islamic religion. According to tradition, Muhammad prohibited the persecution and killing of cats, and Islam teaches that cats should not be sold for money or other goods, and must be treated well

Ficus benjamina (weeping fig)

Ahl Saoud Mosque © Ivaylo Nikolov

King Abdul Aziz Al Saoud Foundation is an Academic library. The collection of the library contains 600,000 volumes

Al Saoud Mosque and Library © Ivaylo Nikolov

Boulevard Kennedy Al-Saoud Mosque

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Casablanca's Sacré-Coeur Cathedral, built in a Neo-Gothic style with

clear Art Deco and Moroccan Muslim

influences, was built in 1930, when Morocco

was still under the rule of Catholic France

Falling into disuse after Morocco's independence

in 1956, the Cathedral Sacré-Coeur was used as a school and then a culture center. Today, it

hosts fairs and exhibitions

New friends on Boulevard de Paris

Place des Nations Unies

Monument Lkora Lardiä (globe terrestre) by Jean-François Zevaco 1975

Hyatt Regency Casablanca

Ficus lyrata, commonly known as the fiddle-leaf fig

The colonial-period clock tower marked the division between the old city (the Madina) and the colonial Ville Nouvelle

This tower was built in 1908 by Commandant Dessigny and has been destroyed in 1948 because of its fragility. It's been rebuilt in 1994

Image internet Renault launched its new, low cost Logan model line in Morocco

Place des Nations Unies, entrance gate to Old Medina (traditional walled town in the north of Casablanca)

Bd President Felix Houphouet Boigny


The French period Ville Nouvelle (New Town) of Casablanca was designed by the French architect Henri Prost, and was a model of a new town at that time. The main streets radiate south and east from Place des Nations Unies, previously the main market of Anfa. Former administrative buildings and modern hotels populate the area. Their style is a combination of Hispano-Mauresque and Art Deco is a combination of Hispano-Mauresque and Art Deco

Everywhere flags because of the

Climate Change Conference (from 7-18

November 2016), in Marrakech

Shops Bd President Felix Houphouet Boigny

Tram Place Mohamed V Image internet

New railway station

Jacaranda

In the 18th century, an earthquake destroyed most of the town. It was rebuilt by the Sultan who changed the name into the local Arabic which is A-ddar Al Baidaa, although Arabic also has its own version of Casablanca. The city is still nicknamed Casa by many locals and outsiders to the city. In many other cities with a different dialect, it is called A-ddar Al-Bida, instead.

Text: InternetPictures: Sanda Foişoreanu Sanda Negruțiu InternetCopyright: All the images belong to their authors

Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuhttps://plus.google.com/+SandaMichaela

Sound: As Time Goes By - Original Song by Sam (Dooley Wilson); Richard Clayderman; Engelbert Humperdinck 2016

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