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Belvedere (Casablanca)
Belvedere is a neighborhood of central Casablanca, Morocco. It is in the administrative district of Roches Noires, Morocco, Roches Noires. Belvedere is home to the Casa-Voyageurs Railway Station and the Tachfine Center shopping mall. References Neighbourhoods of Casablanca {{CasablancaSettat-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business center. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a population of about 3.71 million in the urban area, and over 4.27 million in the Greater Casablanca, making it the most populous city in the Maghreb region, and the List of largest cities in the Arab world, eighth-largest in the Arab world. Casablanca is Morocco's chief port, with the Port of Casablanca being one of the largest artificial ports in the world, and the second largest port in North Africa, after Tanger-Med ( east of Tangier). Casablanca also hosts the primary naval base for the Royal Moroccan Navy. Casablanca is considered a Global Financial Centre, ranking 54th g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It spans an area of or , with a population of roughly 37 million. Its official and predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber; the Moroccan dialect of Arabic and French are also widely spoken. Moroccan identity and culture is a mix of Arab, Berber, and European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. In a region inhabited since the Paleolithic Era over 300,000 years ago, the first Moroccan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roches Noires, Morocco
Roches Noires or Assoukhour Assawda ( ar, روش نوار or (( ar, الصخور السوداء) is an arrondissement of eastern Casablanca, in the Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi district of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. As of 2004 it had 104,310 inhabitants. A Frenchman named Eugène Lendrat founded the Roches Noires neighborhood and built , a church in Neo-Gothic style replicating an 1860 church by Émile Boeswillwald in Pau, France. The church in Roches Noires was converted into Al-Quds Mosque after Morocco regained its independence. The French-Moroccan architect Jean-François Zevaco Jean-François Zevaco (,1916–2003) was a French-Moroccan architect born in Casablanca. He is considered an emblematic figure of the modernist architectural movement in Morocco and in Africa, and his legacy is important in terms of the number of ... designed the Vincent Timsit Workshop on Blvd. Moulay Ismail in 1952. References Arrondissements of Casablanca Neighbourhoods o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casa-Voyageurs Railway Station
The Casa-Voyageurs Railway Station ( ar, محطة الدار البيضاء المسافرين; french: Gare Casa-Voyageurs) is an ONCF (french: Office national des chemins de fer, ONCF, "Moroccan National Railway") station in the Belvedere neighborhood of Casablanca. The station is served by suburban and long-distance trains. It is Casablanca's principal station, the other is . It is an important hub connecting several main lines of the Moroccan railway network. The other station in the city is , but that is not on the main North-South line and offers only local connections to nearby destinations and the Mohammed V International Airport. History The station was built by the (CFM) in 1923, under the French protectorate of Morocco. It had 8 platforms. It was expanded for Al Boraq service which began November 2018. Casa-Voyageurs became the southern terminus for the high speed train. It is the largest railway hub in the country, serving direct trains within Morocco (Aïn Seb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
