Hotel Suisse, Algiers |
Hotel Suisse, an inexpensive 2-star option in a city where most hotels are overpriced |
The Hotel Suisse is centrally located near the Khelifa Boukhalfa metro station |
Simple room at the Hotel Suisse |
Rue Didouche Mourad, 3ème Arrondissement |
After the French arrived in 1830, they expanded the city outwards from the old Casbah in the European style |
The French call Algiers "la ville blanche", the white city |
This narrow house is on a corner next to the Tafourah (Grande Post) metro station |
Franco-Algerian version of New York's Flatiron Building |
Corner of Rue Charras & Rue Didouche Mourad |
Ville Blanche at the Tafourah metro station |
Alger - La Ville Blanche |
Boulevard Mohamed Khemisti |
The grandest of the French architecture in Algeria dates from ca 1880-1910 |
Ville Blanche, Place de la Grande Posts |
Art Nouveau style of turn-of-the-century Algiers |
Luckily, many of the old buildings of the Ville Blanche have been maintained or restored |
Boulevard El Khettabi at Place de la Grande Poste, Algiers-Ville Blanche |
Boulevard El Khettabi at Place de la Grande Poste, Algiers-Ville Blanche |
An uncommon non-whitewashed building in the Ville Blanche |
Jardin Horologe Florale - without the Floral Clock |
Liberation Monument, Jardin Horologe Florale |
Another corner building |
Hôtel Albert 1er, Alger |
Hôtel Albert 1er, Alger |
Place du Grand Poste |
Hotel Albert Premier (1er), Algiers |
Moorish-style building on Place de la Grande Poste |
Tile artwork of the Casbah, Place de la Grande Poste |
Tile artwork, Place de la Grande Poste |
Staircase, Place de la Grande Poste |
Ave El Khettabi at Place de la Grand Poste |
Place de la Grand Poste |
Place de la Grand Poste |
La Grande Poste d'Alger, ca 1908-1910 |
Néo-mauresque Grande Poste, Algiers |
Ceiling of the neo-moorish Grande Poste, Algiers |
Ceiling of the neo-moorish Grande Poste, Algiers |
Ceiling of the neo-moorish Grande Poste, Algiers |
Boites aux Lettres, Grande Poste d'Alger |
La Grande Poste |
La Grande Poste |
Banque Postal |
More neo-moorish architecture - Banque Postal |
Boulevard M. Ben Boulaid |
Grande Poste branch of the Banque Nationale d'Algérie |
Grande Poste branch of the Banque Nationale d'Algérie |
Algiers is built on a hillside with big height changes between blocks - Blvd M. Ben Boulaid and Rue A. Hocine |
Alger - La Ville Blanche |
French New City - Alger, La Ville Blanche |
Rue Lari Ben M'Hidi, Alger |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader, Alger |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
Abdelkader El Djezairi (1808-1883) |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
Emir Abdelkader Monument, Algiers |
The Emir Abdelkader lead the unsuccessful struggle against the French colonial invasion of Algeria |
Emir Abdelkader Monument, Algiers |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
Emir Abdelkader Monument, Algiers |
Emir Abdelkader Monument with the tower of the Modern Art Museum of Algiers |
Musée d'art moderne d'Alger |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
Stairs leading to the upper city. Algiers |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader, Alger |
Place de l'Emir Abdelkader, Alger |
Algerian flags, Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
Emir Abdelkader Monument |
Emir Abdelkader Monument , Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
One of the few touristy shops - Artisanat Algeria, Place de l'Emir Abdelkader |
Musée de l'Arte Moderne d'Alger, Rue Lari Ben M'Hidi |
Another French-built neo-moorish building |
Museum of Modern Art, Algiers |
Kitty in a shop window, Rue Lari Ben M'Hidi |
Continuing by walk through the Ville Blanche north towards the Casbah |
No-Name Hotel |
At a bend in the road near where the Ville Blanche transitions into the Casbah |
Edge of the Ville Blanche |
Ornately carved door, Ville Blanche |
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque |
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque |
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque |
Mosquée Abdelhamid Ben Badis, Alger |
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque |
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque, Algiers |
Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque, Algiers |
Jama' Al-Imam Al-Sheikh Abdelhamid Ben Badis, 1401 A.H. (1981) |
French Colonial building dated 1897 |
Laboratoire d'Analyses Medicales |
Where the Ville Blanche meets the Casbah, Algiers |
Extension of the Algiers Metro - Station Ali Boumendjel |
Alger - Ville Blanche |
Rue Abane Ramdane, Alger |
Central Touring Hotel, Algiers |
Rue Nafaa Haffaf |
Peeling paint in the Ville Blanche |
Arcade along Boulevard Zirout Youcef |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef, a stretch of impressive French colonial architecture facing the sea, Ville Blanche |
Arcades and Atlantes, Boulevard Zirout Youcef |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef, Alger-Ville Blanche |
Bank El Djazaïr - Bank of Algeria |
Bank El Djazaïr - Bank of Algeria |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef, Ville Blanche |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef, Alger-Ville Blanche |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef, Alger-Ville Blanche |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef, Alger-Ville Blanche |
Gare d'Alger, the main railway station of Algiers |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef across from the Gare d'Alger |
Arcades of the Ville Blanche |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef, Algiers |
Algiers Road Sign - the Grand Poste is a major landmark |
Port-side Algiers |
Office Nationale du Tourisme, Alger |
National Tourism Office, Algiers |
Boulevard Zirout Youcef turns into Boulevard Che Guevara after Place Port Said |
Boulevard Che Guevara, Algiers |
Banque Nationale d'Algérie |
Boulevard Che Guevara, Algiers |
بنك الجزائر |
French lampposts, Blvd Che Guevara |
Boulevard Che Guevara as it approaches the Casbah at Place des Martyrs |
French lampposts, Blvd Che Guevara |
Mediterranean blue and white, Algiers |
Chambre du Commerce, Place des Martyrs |
The Algiers Chamber of Commerce overlooking the port |
Municipality Building of the Casbah, Blvd. Che Guevara |
Arcades, Blvd Che Guevara |
Emir Abdelkader in tiles, Casbah Municipality |
Ramel in tiles, Casbah Municipality |
Petit Omar (Yacef Omar), Casbah Municipality |
Sculptural detail of a building overlooking Place des Martyrs |
Place des Martyrs is currently fenced off for construction of the Algiers metro extension |
Port of Algiers |
Chambre du Commerce - perhaps the old French port authority building |
Details of the Algiers Chamber of Commerce Building |
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Chambre du Commerce, Boulevard Amilcar Cabral |
Alger - La Ville Blanche au fond du mer |
The City of Algiers facing the port |
Chambre de Commerce, Alger |
ENADITEX |
Boulevard Amilcar Cabral, where the Casbah meets the Sea |
One of the few modern post-Colonial buildings in central Algiers, Bab el-Oued |
Nelson Town Square, Algiers |
The old Église Saint Pierre-Saint Paul, Algiers |
Alger - Bab El Oued |
Boulevard de l'Emir Khaled |
Boulevard de l'Emir Khaled |
Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger, 1956 |
Perhaps inspired by a nuclear power plant, the 1956 Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger |
Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Alger, the current cathedral of Algiers |
Road sign - Alger Centre |
Rue Franklin Roosevelt near the Bardo Museum |
Rue Franklin Roosevelt |
Rue Franklin Roosevelt |
An uncommon color for the White City, la Ville Blanche |
Mosquée El-Rahma, a converted church |
Mosquée El-Rahma, Rue Khelifa Boukhalfa |
The former Église Saint Charles, now Mosquée El-Rahma |