THE BOULILA TOWER AND THE BENISGUEN RAMPART

The city of Beni-Isguen is surrounded by a great wall of 1525m in length and 3m in height with a thickness of up to 1m at the base and 20 cm at the top.

Built in the fourteenth century, the bulwark of Beni-Isguen has reached its present form only after the last extension in 1880.

The wall has watchtowers, whose larger Bordj Boulila two main gates, Bab El Chergui and Bab El Gherbi and three other gates.

The wall, and watchtowers have been targeted recently by a series of restoring operations. The operation is still in progress in parallel with a consistent and continuous monitoring in space and time.