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The city of Algiers sits at a bay overlooking the beautiful Mediterranean. The old town, the Casbah, used to be home to sea pirates. It’s a labyrinth of tiny streets climbing the hill overlooking the port.

But Algiers also is a city with beautiful avenues and architecture reminiscent of its long French influence. The buildings may need some refreshing but have lost nothing from their former glory.

Algeria is a beautiful country with a rich historical and cultural heritage and a tremendous variety in its geography (sea, plains, mountains, deserts).

Tipasa for example is located about 50km west of Algiers. It’s a seaside resort with beautiful beaches of white sand and turquoise water against a hilly background. It even featured a Club Med in the ’70′s!

Tipasa has one of the better Roman ruins along the Mediterranean Sea. It was originally a Phoenician trading post, but it became a Roman colony in the 2nd century AD. Later it became one of the most important Christian ettlements in Northern Africa. With the coming of the Vandals and their Arian Christianity in 430, most of the inhabitants fled to Spain. With the coming of the Arabs in the 7th century, there was so little left that they called the place Tefassad, meaning "badly damaged".(©Copyright CiAS Miftah-Shamali Algeria (http://i-cias.com/m.s/algeria/). Tipasa has also been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site" in 1982, one of only 830 such properties across the world.

The main road, 14 meters wide, has about 200 meters preserved. It used to link Tipasa with Cherchell, 14 km further to the west

This must have been one of the more exquisite shopping streets of its era 2000 years ago when you could stroll under the arches and check the wares in the stores lined along this street that leads down to the seafront. Carpe Diem, the Romans truly knew how to enjoy life!