Completed in 1956, the Cathédrale du Sacré Cœur d'Alger stands in Alger-Centre, at the top of rue Didouche Mourad. It was built as a shell of reinforced concrete.
Central Algiers
Completed in 1956, the Cathédrale du Sacré Cœur d'Alger stands in Alger-Centre, at the top of rue Didouche Mourad. It was built as a shell of reinforced concrete.
The central headquarters of the Ministry of National Education, not open to the public, is at 8 rue Pékin, in El Mouradia.
Many embassies stand in Hydra, among them the chancellery, or offices, of the French embassy. These diplomatic buildings are not open to the public.
The eastern districts
The Quartier des affaires de Bab Ezzouar, the business district of Algiers, lies in the east of the commune. The national airline Air Algérie has its head office there.
Bordj El Bahri is home to the Fort d'Estrées.
Bordj Tamentfoust, an Ottoman tower in El Marsa, was one of the main outer fortresses of Algiers and guarded the eastern entrance of the bay. The octagonal tower has gun ports facing land and sea, a moat and a drawbridge. On 27 May 1999 it became a history museum, with four halls of objects from prehistory to the Islamic period.
Draria
Beside the road to El Achour, the École des jeunes aveugles d'El Achour teaches blind and partially sighted children on almost 4 hectares in Draria. Draria also has an SOS children's village, a group of family houses for children who cannot live with their parents. Its supervision has passed from SOS Villages d'Enfants to the Algerian Red Crescent.
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