algeria

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 back to the Phoenicians who founded, nearly 1200 BC. Commercial barracks named it "Okosem", then underwent Roman rule and was established as a city. After Byzantine rule moved to Islamic rule, and reconstructed in 944. After the Ottoman occupation underwent French colonialism in 1830, which saw Imrana and an increase in population and the French built a new section of the city near the sea and set up the institutions of colonial rule. Then Algeria 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). It consists of the trachea historic buildings dating back to the Ottoman and before them, and is characterized by steep streets upset and being concentrated at the top of the hills overlooking the sea, as most of the streets are composed of drawers. Scattered houses in the old Casbah about internal square yards in position Navoh or wells, and around residential buildings. Since the years of the last century Saben conducting a search and documented in the Casbah, has announced that in 1992 the world 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 of Algiers.

Featuring the city of Algeria as a Mediterranean climate and mild mostly. Where summer is long and hot in some days, and mild winters and gentle, despite the fear always flood caused by the descent of water from the upper section of the city to the bottom section.

Algeria landmarks of the capital, the shrine of the martyr (Riad Conquest), a memorial to the Algerian revolution monument, erected in 1982 to commemorate the victims of the war of liberation. Central Post also considered to be of Moroccan Architectural building was constructed between 1910 and 1913. There are experiments in Hamma Garden neighborhood, a green pearl fertile stretch on the runway at the foot of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the largest in Africa and the Arab world, stretching from the CRB neighborhood to neighborhood Hassiba Ben Bu Ali, the third is the most beautiful park in the world.

The Church of Notre Dame d'Afrique are Roman Catholic church built in 1872, and can be reached by cable car, one of the most monumental privacy city, located in the neighborhood of Bab El Oued. There Ketchaoua mosque, one of the most famous historical 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 demolished and held his place Cathedral as "St. Philip." Riyadh Palace also highlights an important historic milestone is a testament to the city's past Algeria during the Ottoman period. There at the National Museum of Fine Arts, nearly 8,000 paintings, the largest Museum of Fine Arts of Africa, the Middle East and the Arab world, was founded in 1875. The yard Emir Abdelkader is the second most famous square in the capital after the Martyrs' Square, a perpetuation of Prince Abdul Qadir, founder of the modern Algerian state.

On the other hand, there are transportation Houari Boumediene International Airport, which is about the city of Algiers about 16 kilometers, which is the main headquarters and operations center Air Algerie company, up from around the Algerian Republic and European cities and West African and Middle Eastern, Asian and American. Linked Algiers suburbs and various Algerian cities network trains, and in Algiers six stations: Algeria, Agha, Hussein Dey, Kherobp, El Harrach.

Inside there Algeria Algiers Metro (Métro d'Alger), Algeria and Tramway (Tramway d'Alger), which consists of 38 stations. As the public transport buses from Vanhol sign Belgian serving Algiers and its suburbs there, and the 54 line, and start the service time of 5:30 until 0:45 at night. Algiers is also characterized by the presence of wind lifts the (cable car) because of the geographical structure, and the lifts are: Talafrick place (garden Altjarb- shrine of the martyr); Civil Talafrick (Hamma area (CRB) -ha homes crop (Civil)); Talafrick Palace of Culture (elements (Hussein Dey) -qsr culture); Talafrick Notre Dame d'Afrique (Bologhine-Notre Dame d'Afrique).

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