Central Marketplace
Covered Neo-Mauresque market hall where fishmongers, herbalists, and florists trade under an octagonal seafood cupola.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Casablanca's Central Marketplace centers on a flower stall near the entrance, where the same bunches of white roses go out each morning for weddings and funerals alike, a routine dating back to the market's opening in nineteen seventeen. It moves under the octagonal cupola to the shouting fishmongers before circling back to the market's darker history, including a nineteen fifty-three bombing tied to resistance fighter Mohamed Zerktouni during the sultan's exile. The guide asks what that flower corner reveals about how Casablancans hold joy and loss side by side.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Quartier Habous
Colonial-era planned market district of arcaded souks and workshops, still owned by a centuries-old charitable land trust.
Marché des Fleurs
Sixteen-shop flower market rehoused from a century of street stalls, rose prices unchanged.
Bab Marrakech
Stone gateway in an eighteenth-century sea wall, opening onto a bustling fish and produce market.
Souk Najd
Sprawling flea market of scavenged stalls and a cardboard-minaret mosque, rebuilt after repeated fires.
Hôtel Lincoln
Neo-Moorish Art Deco landmark from the nineteen-tens, its listed facade preserved through a total interior rebuild.
United Nations Square
Colonial-era crossroads square built over a vanished nineteenth-century market outside the old medina walls.