Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: As in a fairy tale, the ex-Casino-Hotel palace 1 of Biskra, presents a true copy of the architecture of the Moorish palaces of the Maghreb.Anxious to preserve the country's triumphant local colour, and to promote Saharan winter tourism during the French colonial period, the architect of historical monuments in Algeria, Albert Ballu 2 , took care to build it in 1893.Since then, this admirable architectural work has never been classified 3 despite its great artistic wealth and historical dimension.More seriously, for some years now it has been undergoing anarchic transformations which only "disfigure" its original state.De facto, the opportunity of its "patrimonialization" had become both for us 5 , urgency and an objective in order to justify today a real care and an imminent "preservation".Thus, the future "monument" will become an added value for the communities and the actors of the heritage by rehabilitating it: to serve as a new "Dar-diaf " residence for the guests 6 and to give a second breath of life to the urban complex 7 ; thus, reinforcing the identity attributes of this city and its community.This form of cultural tourism will henceforth be spatially, socially, economically and culturally linked to its territory, thus becoming a "sustainable" management of this heritage asset.
Author: Noureddine MAHDADI
Institution: University Ferhat Abbas of Setif
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4291237378