Algeria Sights

Attractions Algeria
The capital of the country - the ancient city of Algiers, which spreads in a circle on the hills near the bay of the same name. Most buildings constructed of light construction material, gives the city an elegant look. Is original Arabic Kasbah in the old town with a bizarre mess of narrow streets and one-story houses with flat roofs, slender mosques and other buildings in oriental style. Among them are built in the XVII century mosque, the tomb and mosque of Siddi Abdarrahman Jami 'al-Jadid.

Still, if anyone dares to visit Algeria, then do it mostly to see the Casbah - the old town, the only one of its kind remaining on Earth. Full of dark alleys and dead ends, mysterious city, the heart of Algeria. Strange and incurious, he shows only blank walls. However, human and alive, these old neighborhoods remained unchanged from the XVI century. This is the world of the Middle Ages, a world where every step face night and day, shadow and light.

Another pearl in the necklace of the Algerian wonders - of Constantine, one of the most beautiful and unusual cities in the world. Located on the north-east of the country, relatively far from the border with Tunisia. City suddenly surfacing and coming from behind piles of rocks, gorges and steep cliffs.

Once the rough river Rummel carved into the rock island. The island town emerged - Ksantis. The river had gone, leaving him the emptiness of eternal companion - right and left, top and bottom. Our Swallow's Nest is vaguely reminiscent of that flying over the land the city. One of the streets and called: "Boulevard of the Abyss." A konstantintsy joke: "In all the cities crow shitting on people, and Constantine - the people at the crows.

Among other attractions - healing spring Hammam Meskutin. They say it cures all diseases (including diabetes, even). The water in the hottest after Icelandic geysers - 98 degrees. Tourists are advised to take with uncooked eggs - to eat, to cook at the source. For unbelievers, after sunuvshih the source of an arm or leg, there are a number of medical facility.

Algeria
For centuries, Algeria was ruled by Rome (42 - 429), the Vandals (429 - 534), the Byzantines. Muslim Arabs appeared in North Africa in VII. They spread Islam, Arabic culture and language. In the XVI century. Algeria was conquered by the Turks and became part of the Ottoman Empire. From 1830 to 1962 GG Algeria was a colony of France. Gained political independence after eight years of bloody war in July 1962

The beautiful white city, situated on the hillside amphitheater Dzhurdzhura stretching along the coast at 16 km.
The city is very green gardens, parks and boulevards. Its neighborhoods are built multistory zdaniyamii villas. Above the town rises the Catholic cathedral of Notre-Dame dAfrik, which they can see the dome from the sea.

Preserved Kasbah ( "Fortress") - the old Muslim district with bizarre mess of narrow streets and one-story houses with flat roofs, slender mosques and other buildings in oriental style. There are built in the XVII century mosque, the tomb mosque of Siddi Abdarrahman Jami 'al-Jadid, "old town", a museum of ancient history and antiquity, a mosque, the tomb and mosque of Siddi Abdarrahman Jami' al-Jadid.

Algeria - the largest port, economic and cultural center. In Algeria, are the oldest university of the country, the National Library, museums, fine arts, ancient and medieval art, ancient history and ethnography and a large botanical garden.

Tipasa
City Tipasa, located near Algeria, is an ancient Punic trading point of the Mediterranean, the Romans conquered and converted into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauritania. Currently preserved a unique group of buildings of the Roman, early Christian, Byzantine origin, located next to the local monuments - Kbor al Rumia and great royal mausoleum of Mauritania.

Konstatina - "Eastern Capital" of Algeria, the third largest city (750 thousand inhabitants), located in the mountains on both sides of the ravine. Museum Cirta Constantine is famous for its archaeological exhibits. The walls of the old city built by the Arabs from the sculptures of the Roman period.