TO RESTORE OLD KSAR

Saving the Ksar El-Menea[/caption] March 4, 2015 | 8:18 p.m. R. C Referred Taourit, Kalâa or El-Goléa the old Ksar El-Ménéa is in the territory of Ghardaia, will be a study of a plan for the protection and restoration. Especially since it was declared a National Heritage in 1995. The study of a backup plan of Ksar El-Ménéa, located 275 km south of Ghardaia, will have a budget of more than 5 million dinars, said the Director of Culture of the Wilaya Ghardaia, Brahim Baba Addoun in an interview with the News Agency of Algeria service. The study consisted of a strategy for the protection and restoration of cultural property existing within the Ksar and reinforcement fortifications and access routes to the historic building overlooking the palm grove of El Ménéa for over ten centuries . Composed of dryland buildings, adobe and blue sandstone, it is the living archive of history, ancient traditions and a particular civilization of El Menea. Located at the crossroads of trade routes linking North Africa from medieval times to the Songhai empire Saharan on a hill 75 meters above sea level, the Ksar Taourit (hill Amazigh) is an urban configuration showing the remains a city in the region organized civilization. A civilization evoked by chronic sociologist Ibn Khaldoun and historian El-Aichi (1862). Featuring a pyramid-shaped turn, Ksar, “Imperial City” has many narrow semi-troglodyte cave dwellings, characterized by a simple abandoned architecture, full of niches, shelves and small openings for lighting and aeration. According to historians, the old Ksar in the past played the role of refuge for the population and attic for their crops in difficult times. His story remains a subject of controversy, some historians making up until the fourth century. Founded on a hill overlooking the east side of the palm, it has a mosque as a focal point around which a downward spiral of dwellings carved into the limestone rock, a collective wells and food storage sites, which is a curiosity for many researchers, academics and tourists. Very advanced decrepitude of this building has pushed several socio-economic actors to focus on the need to save the few buildings that can be saved, especially the palace of the princess bent M’barka El-Khass, the remains of the mosque , ramparts and a few houses. The rehabilitation of this vernacular heritage and its development up to the leaders of culture, an opportunity for sustainable development, particularly in the tourism sector of jobs. It is also a sociological and historical control of the region, reflecting the creative abilities of its builders to adapt to their environment, a hostile environment characterized by a desert climate to meet their needs. In this sense, many associations advocate the rehabilitation of this jewel to improve the living conditions of the residents of El-Ménéa but also to ensure that the Ksar contributes to sustainable development by destination of cultural tourism which is a the local economy promoter segment based on tourism, handicrafts and agriculture. http://www.jeune-independant.net/Vers-la-restauration-du-vieux-ksar.html]]>