Wilaya de Casablanca-Settat
Neo-Mauresque and Art Deco government seat crowned by a fifty-meter clock tower over a colonial-era square.
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This guide to the Wilaya de Casablanca-Settat follows Marshal Hubert Lyautey's decision to build a new city beside the old medina, and the decade architect Marius Boyer spent from 1927 designing its centerpiece. It moves through the grey sandstone walls, the green zellige frieze, and the riad-style courtyards where French clerks once worked, up marble and copper stairs past panels painted by Jacques Majorelle. Stand beneath the fifty-meter tower and listen for what Casablancans actually call this building.
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