I believe that if Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman had not led in 1942 a beautiful love story in Casablanca, probably that today to few ones there they would sound this city, the biggest port of the North of Africa. Casablanca is a city that, almost without wanting it, turned into one of these cities movies star. Nevertheless, it has much more that to offer us that a simple glass and good music in Rick Café.
His strategic place, natural port on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, and to the southeast of the Strait of Gibraltar, have turned it for ages into an attraction place for all the tourists. Nevertheless, the first ones that came up to her were the tribes Berbers of the desert, in the VIIth century, who founded a fishing port to which they called Anfa.
This name is still remembered, since many streets of Casablanca take it, as well as several places of the surroundings. But when the Anfa inhabitants were wrapped in the piracy and the slaves' commerce, when the Portugueses, and later the Spanish, submitted it, they were seen in the need to change the name to him into that of Casablanca.
A tremendous earthquake in 1755 ordered below all the colonial structures constructed for Portuguese and Spanish. He had to be a Moroccan sultan who was initiating the reconstruction works one century later. The Britons contributed to it, but neither not with money nor labor, but with the tea, which little by little, and already with local extract, has been called him sometimes the Moroccan whisky.
Finally, they were the French those who took the control of the city at the end of the XIXth century. In the 20s and the 30 of the XXth century, began turning Casablanca into an African wild Indian of Art Deco, constructing enormous white buildings. That legacy still can turn in a city with wide avenues, trees, gardens and stately squares.
The ambience that is breathed in Casablanca is the typical one of a city of the south of the Mediterranean, with coffees, restaurants and many shops of sweets. The coffees and the breakfasts are so popular as the Moroccan tea or the local kitchen. Boulevard de la Corniche is the famous highway of the coast of Casablanca, which he leads to the beaches and the most exquisite places of the city.
The night life of Casablanca is especially in the area of Miami Plage and Ain Diab, without forgetting us of course of Rick's Café. Walking is very popular in Casablanca, although if you go in car, to park is somewhat difficult, therefore the best thing is to take a taxi.
Do not remain without experiencing the extract of a city as Casablanca. If it was the stage of an intense love story between two of the biggest actors of the history of cinema, who knows the surprises through that he can make us live.
Photo Route Grumpysumpy
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