Arab League Park
Thirty-hectare colonial-era park of palm-lined avenues, ficus shade and a lily pond, built as a botanical experiment.
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This guide to Arab League Park in Casablanca goes back to 1921, when French landscape architect Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier planted species that had never grown on this salt-sprayed coast, unsure whether any would take root. It follows which of his palms, ficus and pines survived, and points out stone arches holding up the park's pergolas that were quietly salvaged from Casablanca's demolished Anfa prison. Walk the park's north-south axis to see the surviving canopy Forestier gambled on, a century later.
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