ANFA

This guide to ANFA, the historic district behind modern Casablanca, opens with a warning: raiding ships for a living was about to get this entire port erased from the map. In the 1400s, Anfa's merchants and sailors built one of the region's richest ports on legitimate trade with Spain and Portugal, running raids against European shipping on the side. You'll hear about the day in 1468 when a Portuguese duke sailed in with dozens of ships and thousands of men, and about the choice its wealthiest families made as the fleet approached. Picture the harbor as you walk the district now, centuries removed from that fleet's arrival.