Casablanca Art Deco Quarter

The downtown grid of Casablanca contains over 300 listed art deco buildings — more than Miami, more than Napier in New Zealand, more than anywhere outside the original European capitals where the style was born. Built between 1910 and 1940 by architects from France, Spain, and Italy, many of them incorporating Moroccan geometric ornament into modernist facades. The city that resulted looks like nowhere else on earth.