Vincent Poon :: Casablanca (28 - 30 Oct)

Casablanca! What I knew about it before was the movie and the song but what I knew after my trip was not much more... one thing I now know for sure, if I return to Morocco again, I would check out other places first...
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Last changed: May 03, 2010
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Cinema Rialto, a classic, cavernous, single-screen art-deco cinema
Hassan II Mosque
Lunch was at this Arab chicken store
Album: Neo Classicism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco

Heavily influenced by the art-deco movement, Casablanca has a rich architectural heritage, with its Mauresque architecure - a blend of French-colonial design and traditional Moroccan style, in 1930s.

I am not an enthusiast, but seems like Casa has already run out of options for me to see...

Changed: May 01, 2010.
Contains: 12 items.
Album: Hassan II Mosque

With a prayer hall that can accommodate 25k, the Hassan II Mosque is the 3rd largest mosque in the world after the one in Mecca and Medina. It has the tallest minaret in the world with 200m high and half of the mosque surface was over the Atlantic.

Changed: Apr 23, 2011.
Contains: 36 items.
Album: Casablanca Bits and Pieces

Besides the Mosque and the Art Deco, these were what I had found in Casablanca during my 2 days there...

Changed: May 02, 2010.
Contains: 36 items.
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