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Casablanca...
Is propelling Morocco towards the future with energy, determination and an infectious optimism.Architects began designing this model city in 1912, bringing a visionary charm to this modern metropolis and organizing its phenomenal development, so that today it is the largest major city in Northern Africa and stunning for its architectural beauty.
It is therefore not surprising that Casablanca was chosen to be the site of the monument designed to mark the end of the century and an entire nation's dream - the Hassan II Mosque.
This is where the international business dealing takes place, where luxury goods and services flourish, high-tech industries are concentrated, and top quality hotels host world class conventions and congresses - all making Casablanca the shining light of modern Morocco.
Casablanca,The Guiding City
60% of Morocco's companies are based in Casablanca, including all those in the high-tech sector. The city consumes 30% of the nations electricity and is the headquarters of practically all major banks. Casablanca is where everything happens.
It has always been an avant-garde city, its strength lying in an ability to take advantage of advances made in technology and modernism, enriching them with the best of Moroccan tradition to create its own individual style. At the beginning of the century Casablanca had already adopted a plan of urban development to channel its extraordinary growth. The center is the hub of a series of spacious avenues spreading out in star formation, each lined with elegant buildings that are an admirable blend of Art Deco and Neo-Moorish styles, featuring cupolas, belvederes, columns, cedar wood balconies and turrets.
Since Casablanca has no natural harbor, the fantastic 3180 meter long Moulay Youssef jetty was constructed to create Morocco's premier port and the fourth in Africa.
The Mohamed V International Airport, the country's largest, reflects the style of the city. Recently completed, the ultra modern arrival area is a monument to traditional architecture.
A dynamic metropolis, Casablanca achieves its power by drawing on its rich cultural heritage and adapting it to modern business needs. It encourages forums and debates and possesses all the infrastructure of a major international capital. Congresses and conventions bring together scientists, industrialists and financiers from all over the world. Seminars and round tables are held in the opulent meeting rooms of its luxury hotels. Political summits take place there. Which is, in fact, quite a tradition. in 1943, His Late Majesty, Mohamed V, accompanied by His Majesty Hassan II, then a young prince, welcomed the three great leaders of the free world; Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaul, for the Anfa conference.
