The popular Gran Café Central is shown prior to opening in the kasbah of Tangier, Morocco. Kasbahs (sometimes spelled “casbahs”) were the citadels of old North African cities; the word can also refer to the native Arab quarter of a North African urban area. Click the above image to enlarge, click to view my high-resolution photo gallery, or click to read my feature article “Tangier: City of Spies.”