Central Marketplace

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.