Tlemcen

Population : 846.942 inhabitants

Communes or villages close of Tlemcen :
Sidi Bou Mediene , Mansoura , Breat , Es Safsaf , Chetouane , Tahdariat , Ain el Hout , Ain Fezza , Ain el Hadjar , Ouzidane , Mlilia , Inndouz , Hennaya , Ouchba , Oum el 'Alou , Maghnia , Asrhar, El Betaiem , Hammam Boughrara, Zoudj el Beghal , Ouled el Houari, Sidi Medjahed.

Located at the West of the country, Tlemcen is a historical city and traditions.

It is a city museum, the first town of art of Algeria. It is located at the medium of gardens and orchards on a red cliff bottom.

Tlemcen kept many monuments of a past prestigious and refined, you will find the mosques most beautiful of Algeria :

• Large mosque Almoravide (XVème century)
• Mosque of Sidi Bel Hassen (XIIIème century), with the mirhab which rests on onyx columns

In El-Eubbad, you can visit the mosque and the tomb built around Sidi Bou-Medienne.
" If you cannot find a Master spiritual, return you to the tomb of Abou-Medienne ", says one to the Maghreb.

Boumedienne, celebrates soufi, born in Seville into 1126, Abou Mediene, Choaib the Andalusian, or Sidi Boumediene, passes for patron saint of Algeria. Initially shepherd, this Spanish goes to Fès, then in Tlemcen, before gaining Mecque where it meets the large mystic Abdelkader El-Gilani, of which he becomes an enthusiastic disciple.
He settles then in Bougie (Béjaia) from where his doctrine will radiate on all the Moslem occident. He dies into 1198, on the path of Marrakech, the capital almohade. Buried on El-Eubbad, close to Tlemcen, his tomb imposes itself like a place of pelerinage.

The second President of Algeria took the name of it: Houari Boumedienne (of its true name Mohamed Boukharouba).

In the surroundings, ruins of Mansourah and the head of hispano-mauresque work of art.

It is in Tlemcen that created for itself a new musical kind " the haouzi ", halfway between the Andalusian music and the music Bedouin, with Algerian words.

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