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Casablanca and Rick's Café

City Half day difficulty: Easy with kids: yes

The largest city in Morocco, facing the Atlantic, with the enormous Hassan II Mosque leaning out over the sea and boulevards with an old-time air. Here is Rick's Café, a salon with a piano and palm trees that recreates the bar from the movie.

The pop wink

The film «Casablanca» (1942) is one of the most famous in history… but it was shot entirely in Hollywood studios, not here. Rick's Café is a tribute that a diplomat opened in 2004 so the city would finally have the bar from the movie: irony told honestly is half the charm.

With kids

Listen to the pianist play «As Time Goes By», the song from the movie
Walk around the huge Hassan II Mosque, almost over the sea
Look for the bar details copied from the movie: arches, lanterns, palm trees
Watch the Atlantic waves break along the Corniche seafront

Accessibility: All ages; Rick's Café is a restaurant, best for a quiet family meal

With family

Eat at Rick's Café and tell the older kids the story of the movie
Visit the inside of the Hassan II Mosque, one of the largest in the world
Stroll through the old-style neighborhood and its white façades
Chat about why movies are sometimes filmed far from the place they tell

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