Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city, is “fast paced” certainly when compared to other Moroccan cities. Located on the Atlantic seaboard, Casablanca is very much a modern city but the buildings of the old city, the Rick's Café and the Hassan II Mosque are very good to visit.

Do you know Rick's Café in Casablanca?

Casablanca is a 1942 American romance film directed by Michael Curtiz, which additionally combines stylistic elements of a melodrama with those of an adventure and crime film. Casablanca was made under the impression of the Second World War and contains a strong political component through the use of Hollywood against Nazi Germany.

The film is a classic of cinema and still enjoys great popularity today. Some quotes from Casablanca are among the most famous in film history. Probably the most famous: “Here’s looking at you, kid.”

Rick's Café is a restaurant and bar in Casablanca, Morocco, in existence since 2004. It is a free recreation of the location of the same name from the movie Casablanca with Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. In the movie, the filming location was Rick's Café in a Hollywood studio. A visit to the real café is popular with tourists, especially Americans, as well as expatriates.

Have you ever been to the largest Mosque of Morokko?

The Hassan II Mosque (Arabic مسجد الحسن الثاني Mesjid al-Hasan ath-thānī, DMG masǧid al-ḥasan aṯ-ṯānī) in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, which has a population of approximately 4 million, is one of the largest mosques in the world. It is named after King Hassan II, who reigned in the year since 1961 and died in 1999, and its minaret is the second tallest in the world at about 200 meters high.

The mosque may be entered by non-Muslims during the morning hours as part of guided tours for an entrance fee.

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