United Nations Square
Colonial-era crossroads square built over a vanished nineteenth-century market outside the old medina walls.
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This guide to United Nations Square in Casablanca starts with a square named after a clock, and with a photograph from 1889 of a market that stood outside the medina ramparts before any clock existed. It follows the French commander Charles Dessigny's order in 1908, the new city planners who rose around the old souk, and the Hotel Excelsior with its Moorish-style arches. Best heard standing in the open, with the old town walls in view.
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