visite TIMGAD - ALGERIA

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Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982, Timgad, an ancient Roman city in the Aures about thirty kilometers east of Batna is one of the most important cities in the history of Roman civilization in northern Africa. 

As of supremacy, so much glory, so much wealth and then ... nothing, nothing but silence and death, the Empire struck and there, a skeleton city perfectly emaciated eagles that fly over mountains rising from the relatives. 

In 1765, an English traveler reported something ...

But it was not until 1880 that we began clearing the old Timgad limbo of history. 

The Roman city, which was called Thamugadi (Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi) in antiquity, was founded by the Emperor Trajan in 100 AD with the status of military colony. This is the last colony of deduction in Roman Africa. The only city in the world can testify to the architectural perfection of the Roman: a perfect checkerboard divided crosswise by the cardo and decamanus, the two main pathways that subdivide the city into quarters.

Today, the paved streets are clean, as swept every morning; plazas, patios, houses seem to expect plumbers will connect pipelines, masons enhance some walls, roofs roofers that will return a tornado came from the Aures probably have packed ...