Casablanca

With sleek shops and bustling beachfront cafés joining Art Deco villas and old-world markets, Casablanca is emerging as a glamorous travel spot with something for everyone

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942)

The majority of people who have been to Morocco usually advise to skip Casablanca if you’re short on time, others even advise to skip it regardless of time. That's because the city is not particularly beautiful or entertaining from a touristic point of view. I spent 5 full days there with my

Casablanca. Alternative movie poster.

Casablanca, Morocco 15 October 2006 Hassan II Mosque. This mosque was designed by the French architect Michel Pinseau and is the second largest in the world (after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca). Its minaret is also the world's tallest at 210m. Built on reclaimed land, almost half of the surface of the mosque lies over the Atlantic water. This was inspired by the verse of the Qur'an that states "the throne of God was built on the water". Photo: Ezequiel Scagnetti