A dynamic metropolis, Casablanca achieves its power by drawing on its rich cultural heritage and adapting it to modern business needs.  It encourages forums and debates and possesses all the infrastructure of a major international capital.  Congresses and conventions bring together scientists, industrialists and financiers from all over the world.  Seminars and round tables are held in the opulent meeting rooms of its luxury hotels.   Political summits take place there, which is quite a tradition.  In 1943, His late Majesty, Mohamed V, accompanied by His Majesty Hassan II, then  young prince, welcomed the three great leaders of the free world; Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle, for the Anfa conference.

The Mahkama du Pacha houses both the court of justice and reception rooms for state occasions.  A little further on, the Notre Dame de Lourdes church, a monumental concrete sculpture dating fro>m the 1950's lit by vast stained glass windows covering an area of 800 square metres.
On the coast, 100 kilometres to the south, discover the old fortified cities, former Portugues trading posts.  Considered as offering the best shelter on the entire Atlantic coast, El Jadida was the scene of bitter fighting with the Portuguese, who finally lost
it in 1769.