Ksar el Kaoua

Ksar el Kaoua stands in the Ouarsenis country north of Ammi Moussa, amid the hills of western Algeria. Its name belongs to the remains of a Roman fortified site, whose walls and masonry recall the long history of occupation in these uplands. The ruins lie among valleys and ridges that separate the Chelif basin from the interior. They preserve a trace of an older frontier landscape beneath the villages and fields of the medieval and early modern Maghreb.