Clock tower
Neo-Moorish clock tower shaped like a minaret, rebuilt as a replica of the French colonial original.
The guide to Casablanca's clock tower starts in 1908, less than a year after French warships had shelled the city, when commander Charles Dessigny ordered a tower built at the edge of the old Souq Kbir marketplace. It follows his engineer, Captain Bouillot, and the odd choice they made: shaping the structure like a minaret rather than a French clock tower, dressed in zellige tile and crowned with a koubba. You'll hear why that borrowed silhouette was meant to announce a new order quietly, years before the protectorate was even signed. Stand at the square where the old medina once met the new European city Lyautey and Prost planned around this exact spot.
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