Algiers
The Post Office, built in 1908 in Moorish style by the French colonial authorities to emphasis that not all buildings with domes and towers are mosques.
An art gallery built in the same style at the same time.
The Algiers town hall, again built in Moorish style.
The Milk Bar, site of a bomb attack on 30th September 1956 which killed 3 and injured 60 carried out by le Front Liberation Nationale, the Algerian freedom fighters, on the eve of the start of the War of Independence.
The commemorative plaque inside the milk bar.
These two pictures show something different...this is the roof of an eleven storey apartment building, built in a ravine whose top floor is a main road. The only other building which has a public road on its roof is in Brazil.
A beautiful sun rise across the bay seen from the hotel.
We had a walk around the casbah and went into a house, nothing from the outside but a well-to-do middle class house...one of the downstairs rooms...
...looking down into the central well...
...looking up the central well.
A sign in the casbah telling people that they are leaving the Muslim quarter and entering the Jewish quarter.
One of several Ottoman palaces undergoing renovation to be reopened as a museum.
A church that was converted to a mosque that was converted to a church by the French and on independence reopened as a mosque.
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