It’s taken 82 years, but travelers are finally discovering that Morocco’s largest city is much more interesting than the fictional version conjured up at the Warner Bros. studios in 1942.
Casa, as the locals call it, is the display window for modern Morocco. Until recently, the country’s tourists have preferred to traffic in nostalgia and exoticism, retracing the steps of writer Paul Bowles in 40s-era Tangier and revisiting the stylish lives of John Paul Getty Jr., his wife, Talitha, Yves Saint Laurent, and Pierre Bergé in Marrakech.
