Europe and the Mediterranean
Bejaia
Béjaïa in Arabic; Bougie in French; Bgayet o Vgaiet in Berber
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Directions
BY AIR
Internacional Airport of Bejaïa – Soummam - Abane Ramdane
Nearby airports:
- Algiers Internacional Airport Houari Boumediene
- Annaba-Rabah Bitat Airport
- Constantine Airport
BY SEA
- The port of Bejaia is the second most important of Algeria, after Algiers
BY LAND
- Train: communicating with Algiers, 175km away
Currency
algerian dinarWhere to sleep
To visit
Sights
- Fort Moussa or Barral
- The Casbah
- Saracen gate
- Gate of the Sea
- Sidi Soufi Moske
- Toudja Aqueduct
Also…
- 1st of November 1954 Square
- Beach of the Aiguades (name of Catalan origin)
- Soummam river estuary, which flows into Bejaia
- Gouraya Nacional Park, mountainous and coastal with large forests, close to Bejaia: www.png-dz.net
- Bejaia’s surroundings present a magnificent Mediterranean coast which is an enormous tourist potential
Do not forget
- Bejaia is a port, industrial and university city with a population of 180,000
- It has a great cultural dynamism (ten cultural associations), especially as the capital of the region of Kabylia, with a Berber or Amazig majority
- Olive oil is the most appreciated agricultural local product along with beekeeping and figs
- Bejaia has an important musical tradition, with local musicians that fusion kabylian folklore with rock. In summer they hold an annual amazigh music festival
- Kabilyan cuisine is the traditionally Berber. Some traditional recipes: aghroum, tamtunt, tikourbabine, couscous, chorba, timsemnin.
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