Casablanca is a city of northwest Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean south-southwest of Tangier. Founded by the Portuguese in the i6th century, it became a center of French influence in Africa after 1907. It is now Morocco's largest city.

Casablanca is a modern city and beautiful in its own respect. It gets the name from Spanish, means "white house", and the Hollywood film Casablanca made this white city more famous all over the world.

Among the most visible aspects of Casablanca are the wide boulevards flanked by white, tall buildings. The streets run out as the leaves of a fan from the Place des Nations Unties. This place is the focal point of downtown Casablanca.

The old city of Casablanca is conveniently located- just off the main town square from where all avenues radiate, and near the sea. But as you enter, you will see that it is not all that old after all, that the houses here often have a form and size which would have made them natural Elements in the "new" parts of many other Moroccan cities.

But still, it is very nice, even if it is surprisingly small.The best parts of the old city is made up of shopping areas,where all types of products are sold, and you should not either miss out on the less visited quarters- the areas where people live - where colors, shapes and curves bring you far away from elegance of downtown Casablanca.

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卡薩布蘭卡是摩洛哥西北部瀕臨大西洋的一座城市，位于丹吉爾西南部偏南。16世紀(jì)葡萄牙人建立該城，1907年后成為法國(guó)在非洲的勢(shì)力中心。現(xiàn)在是摩洛哥最大的城市。??

卡薩布蘭卡是一座現(xiàn)代城市，具有獨(dú)特的美。該名源于西班牙語(yǔ)，意為“白色的房子”。好萊塢電影《卡薩布蘭卡》更是讓這座白色之城聞名世界。?

卡薩布蘭卡最吸引人的還是那些寬廣的林蔭大道，大道旁邊還伴有白色的高樓大廈。街道呈扇形從市中心的聯(lián)合國(guó)廣場(chǎng)向外延伸，這個(gè)廣場(chǎng)是卡薩布蘭卡市中心的焦點(diǎn)。

卡薩布蘭卡的舊城區(qū)位置便利——?jiǎng)偤眠h(yuǎn)離所有擴(kuò)散在道路兩旁的主要城鎮(zhèn)，離大海很近。但一旦你走進(jìn)它，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它并沒(méi)那么破舊，這里房子的格局和規(guī)模使他們與許多摩洛哥其他城市的新區(qū)融為一體。? ??

盡管它的規(guī)模之小令人驚訝，但它仍然很美麗。舊城區(qū)最好的地方是它的購(gòu)物區(qū)，在那里有各種各樣的商品出售。同時(shí)，你也不能錯(cuò)過(guò)那些游客較少的地區(qū)——居民住宅區(qū)——那里的顏色、輪廓和轉(zhuǎn)彎處將帶你遠(yuǎn)離卡薩布蘭卡市區(qū)的優(yōu)雅。

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