Boulevard de la Corniche

This guide to Boulevard de la Corniche in Casablanca opens before dawn with El Hank's lighthouse keeper climbing 256 spiral stone steps to keep the lamp burning through an Atlantic squall. It traces the lighthouse's construction around 1920, its mercury-set rotating lens, and the small keepers' settlement that once stood beside it, families who checked the mechanism every night for decades. Look east from where you stand toward the beam that once guided ships thirty nautical miles out over the water.