Algeria Edition
International Day of Friendship leads today's complete edition for Algeria.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A United Nations observance celebrating friendship, understanding, and peace between people and communities.
A day for the stories people inherit, correct, retell, laugh about, argue over, and pass along.
Constantine, the city suspended in air, connected to the world by bridges that span gorges carved by the Rhumel River. The city sits on a rock plateau surrounded by ravines on three sides, and the bridges are not decorative, they are essential. Without the bridges, Constantine would be an island. The Sidi M'Cid Bridge, the suspension bridge designed by Ferdinand Arnodin, hangs 175 meters above the river. The city has been Constantine since the Romans named it for Emperor Constantine, but it was Cirta before that, and Numidian before that. Every layer of Algerian history is visible in Constantine: the Ottoman palaces, the French colonial architecture, the Roman ruins, and the modern bridges that hold it all together.
