Alger - Ville Blanche

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	AlgeriaJun13 0190.jpg	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