A citadel was built over the camp in 1145 and has been one of the town's centrepieces ever since. The Zianide ruler Yaghmorassen moved his residence inside the Mechouar walls in the early 14th century and a mosque was built in the 1310s. The Ottoman admiral Barbarossa used it as his stronghold in the 16th century and the French followed suit after the fall of Tlemcen, using it as a barracks and hospital. Today the Mechouar offers a place of peace inside its massive walls and across its broad
The villa was built by Mustafa Pasha , during the Ottoman period, in the middle of the 18th century, it served as a very luxurious hotel that was designed to receive rich and noble of foreign compounds and especially British travelers . The villa Brossette is currently occupied by the CPRA (National Agency of Great Achievements Management Projects of Culture)
The Mausoleum is the tomb where the Berber Juba II and Cleopatra Selene II, king and queen of Mauretania, are buried. The monument was built in 3 BC by the last King of Numidia, and later King of Mauretania, Juba II, and his wife Cleopatra Selene II. Cleopatra Selene II was an Egyptian Greek Ptolemaic princess, the daughter of the Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony. Through her marriage to Juba II, she became the last Queen of Numidia and later Queen of Mauretania.