Showing posts with label Algeria UNESCO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Algeria UNESCO. Show all posts

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Algeria: Timgad

Timgad lies on the northern slopes of the Aurès mountains and was created ex nihilo as a military colony by the Emperor Trajan in AD 100. With its square enclosure and orthogonal design based on the cardo and decumanus, the two perpendicular routes running through the city, it is an excellent example of Roman town planning. Source:whc.unesco.org
Inscribed: 1982


Thanks to Mr Boris.

Algeria: Kasbah of Algiers

The Kasbah is a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It stands in one of the finest coastal sites on the Mediterranean, overlooking the islands where a Carthaginian trading-post was established in the 4th century BC. There are the remains of the citadel, old mosques and Ottoman-style palaces as well as the remains of a traditional urban structure associated with a deep-rooted sense of community. source:whc.unesco.org
Inscribed: 1992

Thanks to Mr Boris.

Algeria: Tipasa



On the shores of the Mediterranean, Tipasa was an ancient Punic trading-post conquered by Rome and turned into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauritania. It comprises a unique group of Phoenician, Roman, palaeochristian and Byzantine ruins alongside indigenous monuments such as the Kbor er Roumia, the great royal mausoleum of Mauretania. Source:whc.unesco.org 
Inscribed: 1982

Thanks to Mr Boris

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Algeria: Tassili n' Ajjer

Located in a strange lunar landscape of great geological interest, this site has one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world. More than 15,000 drawings and engravings record the climatic changes, the animal migrations and the evolution of human life on the edge of the Sahara from 6000 BC to the first centuries of the present era. The geological formations are of outstanding scenic interest, with eroded sandstones forming ‘forests of rock’. Source:whc.unesco.org
Inscribed: 1982


Thanks to Mezghrani.