.......Aïn-Temouchent

Population : 326.611 inhabitants

Communes or villages close to Aïn Témouchent :
Aïn Temouchent, Beni Saf, El Malah, Hammam Bou Hadjar, Aïn Larba, Aïn Kihal, Oulhça et El Amria.

Hydrotherapy is present at Aïn-Témouchent because of existence of sources of a high therapeutic value. Because of the importance of the thermal springs being in the zone of Hammam Bouhadjar, and of the insufficiency of the hotel facilities to receive a potential request, new structures will be carried out to increase the current capacity of greeting.

Other tourist curiosities:

Existence of archeological sites and historical such as :

• - Siga: capital of an old kingdom
• - Tafna (treated celebrates bearing its name).
  

Bellamou : The Father of raï Long Distance
He is Bellamou which Khaled, Cheb Mami, Faudel and the others came to listen religiously before taking the path of the exile. Because the man is a crucial reformer of the raï, the first who imposed the trumpet instead of the flute of reed.

Remainder faithful to its village, Aïn Temouchent, Bellamou continued to make appear new cassettes regularly. It made CD: six pieces with old with the accents jazz, where the trumpet of maestro launches out in a dialogue without end with the raucous and incredibly melodious voice of his singer: Saïd Bentata.

A recording to be classified right now with the row of " traditional "!

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