Algier is located in the western part of a bay of the Mediterranean, at the mountain slopes of the Sahel, a branch of the Atlas Mountain. The capital is with 1,661,000 residents the largest city of the country and an industrial city (leather- and textile industrie), a traffic junction (street, railway, harbour and airport) and cultural centre with an university, many institutes, galleries and museums. Many residentials districts for Europeans have been constructed after the French conquest which still form the cityscape, where you can also find the 2-kilometer- long boulevard.
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Sights:
The Bardo Museum, richly decorated palace of the 18th century, shows a collection of fossils, tools and weapons of the paleolithic and neolithic era. In the museum for classical antiquity and Islamic art, a collection since 1846, you can find Roman glass art, mosaics, embroideries from the time of the Turkish rule, ceramics and wooden sculptures of Spanish-Moorish origin from the 11th to the 15th century. Founded in the 4th century BC by the Carthaginians the Kasbah, the old town of Algiers, represents a historical and cultural jewel. Many buildings which are only ruins today - like citadels, mosques and ottoman palaces, form with the slowly built constructions of less distant past eras, a brilliant overall picture of muslim culture and lifestyle. In the crafts museum collections of old carpets and old jewelery from the 16th century are housed.
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