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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)
Ficus benjamina (weeping fig)
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
Internet image
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
Hyatt Regency Casablanca
Hyatt Regency Casablanca
Hyatt Regency Casablanca
Place des Nations Unies
Ficus lyrata, commonly known as the fiddle-leaf fig
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
Place des Nations Unies, entrance gate to Old Medina (traditional walled town in the north of Casablanca)
Bd President Felix Houphouet Boigny
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
Bd President Felix Houphouet Boigny
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.
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Sound: As Time Goes By - Original Song by Sam (Dooley Wilson); Richard Clayderman; Engelbert Humperdinck 2016