Historic Algiers: Squares, Mosques and Arts
Algiers · Algeria
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Walk through Algiers as its squares, mosques, museums, gardens and historic buildings reveal the city’s layered cultural life. You will move from the open space of Place des Martyrs to religious landmarks, collections of folk art and calligraphy, and streetside details such as a jewelry shop. Take this walk for a close-up experience of Algiers’ historic character, with varied stops that invite you to pause, look carefully and explore at your own pace.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.
Martyrs' Square
A military parade ground became Algiers’ memorial square, with two thousand years beneath it.
The New Mosque
A seventeenth-century mosque whose unusual cross-shaped plan created a legend about its builder.
The Great Mosque
A thousand-year-old Almoravid mosque, altered by bombardment, dynasties, and colonial rebuilding.
Palais des Raïs
An Ottoman coastal stronghold that preserves where the Casbah once met the sea.
Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions
A sixteenth-century Casbah palace became Algeria’s museum of inherited craft.
المتحف الوطني للزخرفة و المنمنمات و الخط العربي
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Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 8 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
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How a walk works
8 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
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A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.