THE BYZANTINE WALL AND CARACALLA ARC OF RESTORATION

28 January 2015 | 7:57 p.m. R. C In order to build a center of business and traditional arts in the city of Tebessa, restoration of the Byzantine wall and the arch of Caracalla will be launched on Wednesday, January 28th. The terraced site will then be freed of its kiosks. ²Au a meeting on Tuesday, with the directors of the wilaya Council, local elected officials and representatives of civil society, the wali of Tebessa, Mabrouk Beliouz called “enrichment project to transforming the ancient Thevest in tourist town. ” He has instructed the president of the Municipal People’s Congress of Tebessa in order to begin “immediately” release procedures of the square with kiosks and urinals to begin work “as soon as possible.” The representative of the consultancy firm responsible in this heritage restoration project, the operation is also inherent in the Caracalla triumphal arch. This vestige, not to be confused with that of Djemila in the wilaya of Setif, is classified National Heritage 19 October 1982. Built between 211 and 214 AD, in honor of the emperor Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus from Africa This Roman triumphal arch is built into the Byzantine citadel that serves door on the north side of the ramparts. Apart from the absence of three columns, this monument is well preserved. It is, as the Arch of Janus in Rome, a rare example of arcs four similar faces. However, it will undergo transformations during its integration into the enclosure due to the construction by the Byzantines side arcades with stones placed indiscriminately without cement. They closed the bottom of the arcade leaving only a small door for the passage of people. The arc then became an easy door to protect. Then, during the French colonization, military engineering cleared the side arcades and walled the North. As for the Byzantine wall, it was built in the sixth century by the Byzantine general Solomon security and political necessities. It has three doors north Caracalla, Salomon Chela in the East and South. The fourth gate Cirta (3.60 m wide and 5.60 m high) was built by military genius at the end of 1950 and destroyed in 1957 by the Handlebar colonel. It is the old town of Tebessa. To rehabilitate the authorities are preparing in advance to evacuate 120 families. Are residents in the vicinity of the Byzantine wall, they will be relocated to new apartments to allow the redevelopment of the whole site and the expansion of the line along the wall. This will include the construction of a passage 8 m wide adjacent to the door of Cirta in order to support the convenience of access to the old town. For his part, the secretary general of the province in particular advocated, during the same meeting, the execution of works with “extreme care to avoid damaging the various underground networks, including gas and the electricity “. This restoration, if it was true to the original architecture, will certainly give a new dynamic to the history of the city and its cultural diversity. http://www.jeune-independant.net/Le-mur-byzantin-et-l-arc-de.html]]>