Burj Qal at al-Ful, the ottoman shore fortress of Algiers city.: Between permanence and transformation

• Autores: Safia Benselama-Messikh
• Localización: Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean: XV to XVIII Centuries: Vol. VI / coord. por Ángel Benigno González Avilés, 2017, ISBN 978-84-16724-76-5, pág. 215
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Dating from the 16th century, the ottoman fortress, Burj Qal�at al-Ful, is drawn up today still almost intact in the middle of the dwellings. It is located on a peninsula and overhangs a escarped slope of the place known as of Rays city in Algiers. Located on a rock like a citadel overhanging the sea, to its feet of the cottages of holidays become of the occupied dwellings all the year, Burj Qal�at al-Ful, offers, seen sea, the imposing image of a high and massive fortress. This fort was since four centuries, the object of multiple uses. Its practical value made that it was integrated into the urban environment which developed thereafter around him and the various functions which it had marked it their traces. Inserted in the city, Burj Qal�at al-Ful, is not a classified fort, neither nor abandoned but saved so far. Contrary to the others forts external of Algiers located on the axis of development northern western/southern in modern city and which were destroyed, Burj Qal�at al-Ful, remained almost intact from its situation in nodal anti zone of the linear development of the city.