Tipasa

Tipasa was founded by the Phoenicians. It was made a Roman military colony by the emperor Claudius, and afterwards became a municipium. The Roman city was built on three small hills which overlooked the sea.

Of the houses, most of which stood on the central hill, no traces remain; but there are ruins of three churches — the Great Basilica and the Basilica Alexander on the western hill, and the Basilica of St Salsa on the eastern hill, two cemeteries, the baths, theatre, amphitheatre and nymphaeum.

Year	Decision	Comments
2006	Removed from Danger list
2002	In Danger	Integrity of the site
1982	Inscribed	Reasons for inscription

Reviews

Hannah (UK):
When I was a kid we lived in Algiers, and used to go out to Tipasa fairly often at the weekends. I remember very clearly wandering around the site - it's incredibly beautiful, right by the sea, and somehow timeless. The memories have stayed with me always, and the place holds s pecial meaning for me now. I'd love to return and someday, hopefully, I will.

Date posted: July 2006

dave behee (usa):
while working for an oil company based at algeris back in 1993, we went to tipasa one week end, took our own self guided tour. we enjoyed it, but during our little tour a local came out of the brush and tried to sell us some very old bronze coins, from the 3 rd centry or so. a couple of the guys started to buy some of them, but it did'nt feel right, so i got the guys to "huddle" and warned them that that guy could be a dirty cop trying to get us to buy artifacts to throw us in jail then extort money from us. well needless to say none of us took the bait, and went home free men. we did take home some "desert rose" a rock formation found in the sahara.......dave behee of artesia, nm

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