Villa Carl ficke
Neo-Moorish villa turned memory museum, once requisitioned as a wartime detention house and orphanage.
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This guide to Villa Carl Ficke in Casablanca begins at Fort Provost, the modest French gun post where a firing squad executed the man who built the house behind it in 1915. It follows Carl Ficke, a German merchant who raised this neo-Moorish villa around 1913, through the outbreak of the First World War, when French authorities requisitioned it and interned roughly two hundred German nationals inside. You'll hear how the house went on serving very different occupants, sick children and then schoolgirls, in the decades after. Look for the staircase as you move through the museum today.
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