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Algeria is rich of a cultural inheritance which needs to be protected and safeguarded, but also to be rescued from oblivion from the ravage of time. It is an exceptionally rich inheritance which translates the fullness of a thousand-year-old history, shaped by multiple civilizations contributions, practices, traditions and customs which thrust their roots in a way of life reflecting the genius of the population. Among the features of the multiple personality of the Algerian is this attachment to the quasi-ritual celebration of the local customs and festivals which show the diversity of the Algerian cultural inheritance.Sometimes, this attachment was effected by time. So, a real work has to be done in order to revive, restore and anchor again this tradition coming from our deepest history and being an integral part of the collective conscience.
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Being aware of the importance of tourism, Algeria decided to develop this sector in a global vision of "sustainability" in order to preserve "the ecological balances, the environment and the social and cultural integrity of the host populations ".
The sustainable development strategy f, adopted by the Council of Ministers in 2002, prefigures the establishment of a tourist industry. Three laws are being elaborated: sustainable development, exploitation of the beaches, studies of development of 19 zones of tourist expansion (ZET).
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400 000 years AC: First human presence according to the discovery, at the lake Ternifine in Oran region, of bones and stone tools of Atlanthropus, a primitive man contemporary of the Sinanthropus
VI millenium AC: The Caspians, ancestors of the Numidians, spread in the Maghreb
6000-1500 AC: Beginning of the livestock farming era and of the Neolithic engravings and rocks paintings.
1500-1000 AC: The Amazighs populated the country.
1100-800 AC: Arrival of the Phoenicians alongside the coast.
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Timgad is a military colony created by the III August legion in the year 100 by Emperor Trajan on the northern slopes of the Aurès Mountain range (province of Batna);
Tipaza was a Punic counter and a strategic base for the Roman conquest of the Mauretanian kingdoms. It was listed among the 33 sites of the world’s endangered heritage by the 26th Session of the Committee of the World Heritage in Budapest on June 26, 2002;
Djemila, the antique Circul, is located at about 30 km from Sétif;
Tassili N’Ajjer (provinces of Ouargla and Tamanrasset) is the vastest museum of prehistoric rock art in the world. More than 15,000 drawings and engravings tell the stories of the climates, fauna and the human life in the Sahara from 6,000 BCE to the early centuries of our era;
Kalâat Béni-Hammade in Bechara (province of M’sila), is a Moslem stronghold, founded in 1007 and was the first capital of the Hammadite emirs;
The M’Zab Valley (province of Laghouat) whose k’sours (fortified villages) preserved the habitat created in the tenth century by the Ibadites;
The Casbah, the legendary Islamic medina in the capital Algiers.
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