Quartier Habous

A neighborhood built by the French between 1917 and 1950 as a "new medina" for Moroccan workers moving to the city. The architects — French, but working with Moroccan craftspeople — created something unexpected: a medina-scale quarter with souk lanes, a mosque, a courthouse, and a covered market, all built in authentic Moroccan style. It is more coherent than most actual medinas because it was planned all at once.