simohamed13
December 15th, 2009, 11:19 PM
(translated with google)
Old Ksar Taghit, witnessed an old history
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Built in the eleventh century, the old Ksar of palm Taghit (located near Bechar) remains, despite the weight of years, witnessed a history of several millennia.
Historians attribute the construction of this old building at least two saints of the region, and Sid Slimane Merabet Sid Ahmed, of the tribe of Amara, all of them from the Oued Sahel and Saguia el Hamra. The old Ksar, which still dominates the city of Taghit is built on a rocky plateau looking at the big dune in the East and enthroned on the right flank of Wadi Zusfana and palm, below. Merouane Taghiti, architect and guide sites, says that his construction was the work of one of his distant ancestors.
According to his explanation, the fortified village contains about 120 houses, inhabited today and the last of the 60 families living here left the scene only in 1991.
If the old Ksar continues to defy the patina of time is because of the many restaurants he has been and shall maintain its original appearance through the use of original materials. The houses and walls of Ksar are made of clods of earth taken from the river which, mixed with straw, are resistant to the vagaries of nature.
A French historian has fortified the village as being "built on the edge of the rocky peak that falls on the Oued Zusfana and homes for toub crumbling walls are grouped in a tangle.
In the 1950s, according to this witness privileged access within the site is through a low door leading to the visitor "in a maze of narrow streets that snake through the house, rising, falling, twisting oddly, abruptly changing direction according to the vagaries of soil and imagination of the builders. "In many places, rock outcrops forming large polished and slippery surfaces, where the foot should venture cautiously," describes it again. Today, this historic site has become an "object" tourism that tourists do not miss any reason. Area, are installed in shops selling products of local handicrafts.
A trainer supervising the 5th University of Copeam (Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual), held recently in Taghit, wrote in a document about which there Ksar "strolls with lots of fun in the streets narrow, and that it "likes to imagine life as it was organized through the covered alleys, to discover those little squares and benches that line the street may still resonate long palaver of men" then.
The houses of Ksar 'far from rudimentary, developed a certain comfort, "said the architect, for whom the materials used to build these homes provide warmth in winter and cool in summer..
Old Ksar Taghit, witnessed an old history
http://www.dziriya.net/culturdz/evasions-culturelles/taghit/taghit.jpg
Built in the eleventh century, the old Ksar of palm Taghit (located near Bechar) remains, despite the weight of years, witnessed a history of several millennia.
Historians attribute the construction of this old building at least two saints of the region, and Sid Slimane Merabet Sid Ahmed, of the tribe of Amara, all of them from the Oued Sahel and Saguia el Hamra. The old Ksar, which still dominates the city of Taghit is built on a rocky plateau looking at the big dune in the East and enthroned on the right flank of Wadi Zusfana and palm, below. Merouane Taghiti, architect and guide sites, says that his construction was the work of one of his distant ancestors.
According to his explanation, the fortified village contains about 120 houses, inhabited today and the last of the 60 families living here left the scene only in 1991.
If the old Ksar continues to defy the patina of time is because of the many restaurants he has been and shall maintain its original appearance through the use of original materials. The houses and walls of Ksar are made of clods of earth taken from the river which, mixed with straw, are resistant to the vagaries of nature.
A French historian has fortified the village as being "built on the edge of the rocky peak that falls on the Oued Zusfana and homes for toub crumbling walls are grouped in a tangle.
In the 1950s, according to this witness privileged access within the site is through a low door leading to the visitor "in a maze of narrow streets that snake through the house, rising, falling, twisting oddly, abruptly changing direction according to the vagaries of soil and imagination of the builders. "In many places, rock outcrops forming large polished and slippery surfaces, where the foot should venture cautiously," describes it again. Today, this historic site has become an "object" tourism that tourists do not miss any reason. Area, are installed in shops selling products of local handicrafts.
A trainer supervising the 5th University of Copeam (Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual), held recently in Taghit, wrote in a document about which there Ksar "strolls with lots of fun in the streets narrow, and that it "likes to imagine life as it was organized through the covered alleys, to discover those little squares and benches that line the street may still resonate long palaver of men" then.
The houses of Ksar 'far from rudimentary, developed a certain comfort, "said the architect, for whom the materials used to build these homes provide warmth in winter and cool in summer..