details of a consignment for Germany radio
"Welcome! Djemila since 1982 World Heritage Site. Djemila was founded in 89, in the first century after Jesus Christ, from Emperor Nerva Augustus. The ancient name is Cuicul. Djemila is really different from the other archaeological archaeological sites in Algeria, because of its geographical position in the highest. And because of its beauty! Djemila means in Arabic the beauty, the beauty. "
out with these words Amar Chaib visitors through the Roman ruins that lie in a valley surrounded by mountains over 1,100 meters high.
Roman pillars rise to trees in the blue sky, the temples are surrounded by high grass growing to the ancient theater blooming marigolds and dandelions, in the fantastically preserved Spas grow violets and poppies. Djemila resembles a slightly overgrown open air museum. The German journalist Thomas hazel is the first time in Algeria.
"We know almost the whole world via photos, on film, on television, via pictures, but Algeria is known in Germany as soon as you know hardly any pictures other than political terrorism and so on. . And then you come to the place completely unknown, and he's terrific. So I find comparable to Pompei, with Roman archaeological sites, I'm speechless. I am outraged that I previously knew nothing about it that here is. That there is no longer advertising it so that it is so unknown. "
school children visit the ruins " On the other hand, this is of course the big feature, the charm, and the appeal that makes it here. It can be seen almost exclusively Algerian tourists, which is not bad. Than 5000 buses with Spaniards, Germans and British. This is one of the places you must have seen once in a lifetime. "
" So we have The Romans kicked. The vandals were. We have thrown it. The Arabs came. You have thrown us. You have got hold of us. Since they had the same skin color as we do, we do not see it coming. They have mixed with us, and to date we do not know who they are and who we are. Some centuries later the Portuguese arrived, we kicked it, the Spaniards came, we kicked it, the British were coming. If you are not able to come. The Turks came, we kicked it. The French have come, we have thrown them. Excuse me! "
with humor and the laughter of the audience told the Algerian Comedian Fellag the history of his country, which is characterized by numerous invasions.
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in their footsteps will find tombs of the Numidian Berbers and the birthplace of St. Augustine, who was in the fourth century AD bishop of present-day Annaba! His remains are in the basilica at the end of the 19th century built in his honor was in Annaba. The philosopher studied in Madauros, these Roman ruins located in the middle of fields Ostalgerien with red poppies and thistles, besides sheep graze in a natural setting.
Much of the treasure still lies underground. Archaeologists from all over the world come to excavations to Algeria. 
Timgad is the second largest Roman city of Pompei! Adel Minina shows the Forum, the 4,000 seats in the amphitheater, where every summer a music festival takes place. The triumphal arch is the most important monument of the city in which lived from 100 AD Roman legionaries retired. The French archaeologist Roger Hanoune said:
"The peculiarity of Timgad is that one sees in this Roman city, the extraordinary regularity, symmetry, this completely artificial urban planning in a way, very strange, for there is nothing natural. where a city develops spontaneously as other Roman cities.
But only the old heart of the city, dating from 100 AD, is perfect geometrically. A few centuries later, the city increased naturally and spontaneously. If you look at the plan of Timgad, one can say that it is the triumph of geometric city planning, but you can also say this is the perfect example that this is doomed to failure! "
The prospect the surrounding Aures Mountains is exceptional, but also in Timgad only very occasionally encountered the Austrian tourist Richard Roeder..
"It's really overwhelming. I was with many Roman remains, which were very nice, but get in this size and so much more I have not seen yet. This is really great. ... I'm really excited, "
Most visitors are Algerians For love to travel, even in our own country, you make the most of the over two million tourists a year, a student wanders from the north with his girlfriend through the ruins.:
"Wonderful, wonderful, extraordinary! Every time you travel in Algeria, you might think you are in another country. Here it is not like me at home in Kabylie! And in the south you might feel to be somewhere else and not in Algeria. Everything is different, there are other Berber, other cultures, other than the sights with us north. I have a home to several countries in a single country "
From the Mediterranean - 1200 km coast cities such as Algiers, Oran, Annaba and Constantin - to the Sahara desert stretches Algeria, five times the size of France . Timgad situated between sea and desert, in the Aures Mountains, whose highest peak 2327 meters high.
"This is our traditional cakes. Millet, the first fried in a pan and then crushed with dates be mixed with natural goat butter. From the dough squares are formed. The good luck, you have to try that! "
Smail Nouri is a teacher retired. He foreign visitors is located in City Hall Arris in the Aures Mountains. Smail wearing a purple scarf and a Basque beret looks, actually more like a French artist . after the war, he was born a Frenchman, before the independence of Algeria
Today Smail leads to the gorge Tighanimine. Here the war began for freedom, as on 1 November 1954, a French teacher couple was attacked: the official start of the Algerian war, which lasted until 1962.
In this their "revolution" the Algerians are still proud of:
"The people had to stand up and say stop to the colonial oppression by the French to live freely, it was war, the Algerians were then tortured some.. had no rights in their own country. They were allowed to eat and work, but their country no longer belonged to them. They worked for the colonial masters. "
In Algiers, the Museum of the Martyrs ", is his monument is for the independence of fallen soldiers from afar. At state receptions here wreaths are laid down.
under the Eiffel tower-shaped monument is displayed in the museum traces the history of the Algerian revolution, the resistance against the colonial rulers from 1830 up to the war of liberation from 1954th On 5 July 1962 celebrated the people in the streets of Algiers, the independence, it is the national holiday.
