Parc Sindibad
Coastal family park with rides, a zip line and a small zoo, rebuilt on piles above unstable sand.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Parc Sindibad in Casablanca starts with an engineering problem: ground so close to the Atlantic water table that the park had to be driven onto piles rather than poured. It traces the site's long delay, from a beloved family park's closure in the early 2000s through a contested 2010 land tender split between two authorities, with a shantytown that had to be rehoused before construction could begin. Somewhere beneath the pathways here, those piles are still quietly doing their work.
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