Culture and tourism

If ever there was a country whose immensity defied the imagination and offered so much in the way of varied opportunities for tourism, Algeria is the one. Algeria offers a whole range of beautiful virgin locations to potential investors. Tourism development opportunities are numerous and diversified:

• the seaside, all along the Algerian coast (1.200 km);
• the mountains (Aures: 2328m, Djurdjura: 32308m);
• the historical sites (archaeology); the prehistoric parks of the Tassili and the Hoggar which have been classified as world treasure by the UNESCO;
• the thermal springs places

The capital Algiers (El Djazair), enclosed in a bay surrounded by hills, has been characterized by two colors, the blue of the sea and the green of its gardens. El Djazair means "the islands" but they have long since dissapeared to become part of this Mediterranean city. Algiers looks like a crown of modern buildings, stylish palaces, proud fortress and immaculate mosques, laid down on a bay that is usually compared to the one in Rio de Janeiro. The city offers a spectacular bay with long sandy beaches like Sidi-Fredj (15 km of Algiers), club des pins (18 km) and Zeralda (25 km). Just a few kilometers more is Tipaza beach with its beautiful Roman ruins, evidence of Roman occupation in 146 BC. Algiers is also the Casbah, the old city with its complex, narrow, twisty streets well known as bastion of the liberation war. Built in Ottoman times, the Casbah is such a labyrinth that even its inhabitants admit to getting lost at times.(Read more…)

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