The Kasbah is a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It stands in one of the finest coastal sites on the Mediterranean, overlooking the islands where a Carthaginian trading-post was established in ...
The maze of passageways, dead ends and tapering lanes in the Kasbah of Algiers is reminiscent of an Escher painting that’s been left to ossify in the midday sun. The high, flaking walls are ...