Showing posts with label Casbah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Casbah. Show all posts

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Algeria part 3 - Top Videos About Algiers

Video of Algiers - Attractions in Algeria
Along the coast of Algeria is a huge amount of Phoenician and Roman ruins, in addition there are ruins and Byzantine era. The most popular include the excavation of ancient ruins near the capital - Jamie. In Cemil a magnificent Basilica, Temples, an ancient Forum and even the Arch of Triumph.
Especially popular among tourists as Timgad and Tipassa, which is Royal Mausoleum of Mauritania.
In Algiers can visit Medina - an ancient city, hidden behind a fortress wall. Noteworthy is the tomb of Saint Sidi Abderrahmane. Gorgeous and Mosque Jamaa al-Jadid.
Would be quite interesting, and Ethnographic Museum Bardo, in which a rich collection of ancient artifacts. Interestingly, and National Museum of Fine Arts.
In the city of Oran is the Citadel of Santa Cruz, as well as the Great Mosque, built in the XVII century, and is located in the town of Blida mosque, according to legend was built by the pirate Barbarossa!
You can visit the city of Annaba, where the ruins of the ancient city Afrodizium. In the city of Constantine is a wonderful Roman Citadel. The tomb is located in Biskra Okba ibn Nafi. Okabe ibn Nafi was a prominent Islamic conquest of North Africa.

Algeria part 5 - Kasbah of Algiers

Kasbah of Algiers
Casbah of Algeria has about 1,700 homes and more than 80,000 people! Originally, the word "Casbah" in Arabic meaning Citadel on the west overlooking the city. Gradually, the term "Casbah" and covered almost the entire city as Ancient walls that protected the Kasbah and the upper and lower parts of the city have disappeared ...
But the condition of the Casbah today? Kasbah resist natural disasters that regularly occur in Algeria, which is located on a tectonic fault? Two associations are trying to save the Kasbah, despite the weak state aid and political disinterest in it. These two associations are called "Saving Casbah» (Sauvons la Casbah) and 'Casbah Association »(Association Casbah).