ANFA
Working port whose merchants and corsairs built a fortune later wiped off the map by invasion.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Anfa in Casablanca goes back to the fourteen sixties, when the town was one of the richest ports in Morocco, trading wheat, silk and coin while its ships raided the coasts of Spain and Portugal. It opens with a stranger who arrived selling figs, and brings in a Portuguese duke, the heir of Prince Henry the Navigator, and the traveller Leo Africanus. Best heard standing on the shore, facing the Atlantic.
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