Casa (as the man at the airport called it) is a big ol' city. Very modern and city like with cars and people rushing and bustling about. But not an ugly city. The main roads are lined with palm trees and even the security bars on the gates and windows have pretty twirled and flourishes.
We visited the Hassan II Mosque. It is the most beautiful religious structure I have seen since visiting the Dommo in Florence. This mosque however is a couple of centuries more modern. It is a colossal structure adorned from top to bottom in intricate carvings and marble and tiles and patterns. The minaret is 200m tall and has pretty green patterns around near the top.
Yes, I went tourist-crazy and snapped tons of pictures that I will unlikely print. I will not reel off all the facts of the mosque, you can read it yourself. Just know it is well worth passing through Casa for a look.
What is amazing is that the mosque is built mostly from locally sourced materials. I should hope that it was built by Moroccan labour. If you're going to spend a lot of money on a big landmark structure of great beauty, you might as well get the whole entire country involved.
One of the girls on tour with me remarked that it is really that big religious structures of equal beauty to the cathedrals of Europe are still being built.
I think I agree.
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