Casa Voyageurs

This guide to Casa Voyageurs in Casablanca opens with an odd question: why did the French build their grandest station nowhere near the old city they had just conquered? It traces that choice back to 1912, when Marshal Hubert Lyautey and his architect Henri Prost decided to leave the medina untouched and raise an entirely separate European city beside it. You'll hear how the 1923 station, with its pale walls and tall clock tower, became that doctrine set in stone. Listen for how the hall's original dome still frames the view toward the tracks.