Tipasa, on the shores of the Mediterranean, is a group of Phoenician, Roman, paleo-Christian and Byzantine ruins. Djemila, 900 metres above sea-level, is an example of Roman town planning adapted to a mountain location. Timgad, founded in 100 AD by Emperor Trajan, is Roman town planning at its best. A traditional human habitat of the 10th century is fully preserved around five fortified villages in the M’Zab Valley. The Al Qal’a of Beni Hammad, the ruins of the first capital of the Hammadid emirs, built in 1007, gives an accurate idea of a fortified Muslim city. The Kasbah of Algiers, a place of remembrance as much as history, features a citadel, old mosques, palaces in the Ottoman style and the remains of a traditional urban structure.
The exhibition will be opened at 6.30 p.m. on February 3.