The name Casablanca (dar el baida in Arabic) means white house.

Casablanca is home to the ambient & architecturally beautiful, French designed, Hassan II Mosque. Moroccan artisans set about creating the most striking Moroccan features renowned throughout Morocco. With its intricate mosaics and ornate plasterwork, granite, marble and wood it took 5 years to complete.

Hassan II Mosque is the biggest mosque in North Africa and the second biggest mosque in the world after Mecca.
It stands proudly overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and the commercial capital of Morocco.
It is one of the few mosques open to tourists who marvel at its magnificence.

“Casa”, as it is known to the locals and the expats that live there, has a population of 3,000,000. It is used as a headquarters for global companies such as American Express, Boeing aircraft, Dell computers, Cisco Systems and Coca Cola.

For many Casablanca conjures up images of the romantic film featuring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Although “Rick’s Café” was a mythical saloon in the 1942 film an American woman, Kathy Kriger has transformed an old courtyard style mansion into a piano bar filled with architectural and decorative details reminiscent of the film.

Casablanca has the advantage of being the commercial heart of Morocco as well as a growing tourist resort. It has fine powdery beaches that stretch as far as the eye can see, an abundance of international restaurants and many luxurious 5* hotels as well as great nightlife.

The Moroccan government have a plan mada’in vision 2010 for the city in which the upgrading of transport infrastructure will include 3 tramway lines a subway and a train line. More green will be created and new theatres. The upgrading of 14 sport facilities, 20 public libraries and various cultural centres. Envisages the construction 10,000 supplementary beds and also the creation of 30,000 jobs by 2012.

There are ongoing restorations of historical monuments notably in the old medina, there is going to be a aeronautics research, study and engineering centre which will provide aeronautics components to companies such as airbus and safran, Casablanca has also attracted FDI, foreign direct investment from the likes of oil rich countries that are building the marina de Casablanca (Casablanca marina).

A US $50 million project will feature offices, retail & entertainment facilities, marina hotels, residential apartments, promenade and open landscapes.
It will cover a built up area of 190,000 m2. They are also building Dubai Towers Casablanca. The US $600 million project will cover an area of 240,000 m2.
The complex will offer office space, residential apartments, and retail and entertainment facilities.

These 2 projects, amongst others being carried out, will transform Casablanca into a world class business and tourist destination.