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Bousbir

Bousbir was a walled-off brothel quarter in Casablanca, Morocco, established by Resident General Lyautey during the French protectorate.

Bousbir
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The place

Bousbir was a walled-off brothel quarter in Casablanca, Morocco, established by Resident General Lyautey during the French protectorate.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bousbir

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hassan II University of Casablanca

    Hassan II University of Casablanca is a public university located in Casablanca, Morocco. It was established in 1975 and took its current form on September 2014 following the merger of Hassan II University Ain Chock – Casablanca and Hassan II University Mohammedia.

    3.9 km · university in Morocco · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Casablanca Cathedral

    The Casablanca Cathedral, or Church of the Sacred Heart, is a former church located west of the Arab League Park in Casablanca, Morocco.

    2.7 km · Moroccan cultural heritage site · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mohammadi Mosque

    Al-Mohammadi Mosque is a large mosque in the Habous quarter of Casablanca, Morocco. It was built circa 1935 and its construction was sponsored by Sultan Mohammed V, after whom it is named.

    300 m · mosque in Casablanca, Morocco · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Al-Quds Mosque

    Al-Quds Mosque, formerly Église de Sainte Marguerite, is a mosque in the Roches Noires neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco. It was originally built as a church built in a Neo-Gothic style, but it was converted into a mosque after Morocco's independence.

    3.2 km · Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Church

    Notre-Dame de Lourdes Church is a Roman Catholic church in modernist style in Casablanca, Morocco. It was built in 1954 by architect Achille Dangleterre and engineer Gaston Zimmer.

    1.5 km · Moroccan cultural heritage site · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sunnah Mosque

    Assunna Mosque is a mosque designed by Jean-François Zevaco in a modernist architectural style in Casablanca, Morocco in 1966. It features brutalist architectural elements such as raw concrete.

    1.6 km · Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Casablanca Twin Center

    The Casablanca Twin Center is a complex of two skyscrapers located at Casablanca, Morocco. The two structures, the West Tower and the East Tower, have 28 floors each.

    3 km · Skyscraper in Casablanca · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rick's Café Casablanca

    Rick's Café Casablanca is a restaurant, bar and café located in the city of Casablanca, Morocco. Opened March 1, 2004, the place was designed to recreate in reality the set of the bar made famous by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the movie classic Casablanca.

    3.7 km · building in Morocco · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ould Al Hamra Mosque

    Ould el-Hamra Mosque is a mosque in the medina of Casablanca first erected in 1789. Along with the Ettedgui Synagogue and the Church of San Buenaventura, it is of the three buildings representing the three Abrahamic religions in a space of 250 m2 in the medina.

    3.3 km · mosque in Casablanca, Morocco · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Temple Beth-El

    The Temple Beth-El also called Beit-El or the Algerian Temple, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue in the Sidi Belyout district of Casablanca, Morocco.

    3.5 km · synagogue in Casablanca, Morocco · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bousbir

Airports
Mohammed V (CMN), 23 km · Rabat-Salé (RBA), 95 km · Beni Mellal (BEM), 177 km
Stations
Port of Casablanca, 3.1 km · Casablanca Voyageurs, 2 km · Casa-Port railway station, 2.8 km · Oasis railway station, 3.5 km
  • Rabat → Bousbir
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  • Oulad Yaich → Bousbir
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Marrakesh → Bousbir
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bousbir

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bousbir. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    278 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    435 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,897 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,900 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,971 km

If you know how people move in Bousbir – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bousbir

Bousbir is 2 km from Casablanca, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Casablancalargest city of Morocco3.1 km
  • Mechouarmunicipality of Casablanca in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco600 m
  • Al Fida – Mers Sultandistrict of Casablanca in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco1.9 km
  • Roches Noiresdistrict of Casablanca in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco3.3 km
  • Ben M'Sickdistrict of Casablanca in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco2.9 km
  • Anfaancient city and old name of Casablanca, Morocco3.9 km