lundi 18 août 2014

Tourism in Algiers

Algeria is the capital of the Republic of Algeria and its largest city. Algeria is located on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea north of the republic. And a population of over 2.2 million people, and in the metropolitan region of more than 3.3 million people.

The history of the city of Algeria to the Phoenicians who founded, nearly 1200 BC. Commercial barracks named it "Okosem", and then subjected to Roman rule and was established as a city. After the rule of the Byzantines moved to Islamic rule, and reconstructed in 944. After the Ottoman occupation underwent French colonialism in 1830, which saw Imrana and the increase in population and the French built a new section of the city near the sea and set up the institutions of colonial rule. Algeria then became the capital of the independent Republic of Algeria in 1962, after a long and bloody revolution.

Algiers is divided into two main categories: Casbah (old section) and the new section (seafront). The trachea is composed of historic buildings dating back to the Ottomans and before them, and are characterized by steep streets upset and being concentrated at the top of the hills overlooking the sea, also composed most of the streets of drawers. The houses are spread in the ancient Casbah internal courtyards around the square in its center Navoh or wells, and around residential buildings. Since Saben years of the last century was conducting a search and documented in the Casbah, has announced that in 1992 the global heritage site.

Section modern reality when the coast was built by the French after the colonization of the city and the institutions of governance. This section features Bashoarah wide and long, which is considered the most prestigious section in Algiers.

The climate of the city of Algeria and the Mediterranean that is mostly mild. Where summer is long and hot in some of his days, and the winter mild and gentle, although always the fear of flooding caused by the descent of water from the upper section of the city to the bottom section.

Landmarks Algiers shrine of the martyr (Riadh El Feth), a monument of the Algerian revolution, was built in 1982 to commemorate the victims of the war of liberation. It is also building a Central Post Architectural Moroccan was constructed between 1910 and 1913. There is a garden in the neighborhood of experiments Hamma, a pearl lush green stretch on the runway at the foot of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the largest in Africa and the Arab world, stretching from neighborhood to neighborhood CRB Hassiba Ben Bu Ali is considered the third most beautiful garden in the world.

The Church of Our Lady of Africa it is a Roman Catholic church built in 1872, and can be reached by cable car, one of the most ancient city landmarks privacy, located in the neighborhood of Bab El Oued. There are a collector Ketchaoua months of historic mosques built in the era of the Ottomans in 1612 AD, has been around French colonialism to the stable after burning all the books and that the Karaites, then the demolition of the cathedral and held his place as the "St. Philip." It also highlights the historic Palace Riyadh as a teacher and is an important witness to the city's past Algeria during the Ottoman period. There is in the National Museum of Fine Arts, about 8,000 paintings, the largest museum of fine arts in Africa and the Middle East and the Arab world, was founded in 1875. The yard Emir Abdelkader is the second most famous square in the capital's Martyrs Square after a perpetuation of the Emir Abdel Kader, founder of the modern Algerian state.

On the other hand, there are transportation Houari Boumediene International Airport, which is away from the city of Algiers about 16 kilometers, which is the headquarters and operations center Airways Algerian, and up between the parts of the Republic of Algeria and European cities and the West African and Middle Eastern, Asian and American. And linked to the Algiers suburbs and cities across the Algerian network trains, and in the six stations Algiers: Algeria, Agha, Hussein Dey, Kharouba, El Harrach.

In the inside there Algiers Algeria Metro (Métro d'Alger), Algeria and Tramways (Tramway d'Alger), which consists of 38 stations. There are also buses for the public transport of marker Vanhol serve Belgian city of Algiers and its suburbs, and the 54 line, and start the service time from 5:30 until 0:45 at night. Algeria is also characterized by the presence of the city where the wind lifts (cable car) due to its geography, and this lifts are: Talafrick place (garden Altjarb- shrine of the martyr); Talafrick civilian (area Hamma (CRB) -ha Diar crop (Civil)); Talafrick Palace of Culture (elements (Hussein Dey) -qsr culture); Talafrick Ms. African (Ms. Poluqin-African).

There are also several attractive tourist facilities outside the capital, Algiers, and close to them, such as Sir Frdj and Palm Beach and Doaaudh and Zeralda Club and pine.

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