Half a day
The Jardin d’Essai du Hamma
Avenues of plane trees and giant fig trees, palms and dragon trees: Algiers’s great botanical garden, then the Martyrs’ Memorial.
Photo: Sabi sabrwina, CC BY-SA 4.0 (source)
- Duration
- Half a day
- Best time
- The afternoon, in the shade of the trees
- Getting there
- By car to the lower entrance of the garden; afterwards we drive up to the Memorial.
The outing, step by step
15:0090 min
The great avenues
The garden began in the nineteenth century as a trial garden for acclimatising plants; its avenues run down to the sea between trees from all over the world.
16:3030 min
The formal garden
Ponds, parterres and the view up to the hill where the Martyrs’ Memorial stands.
17:1545 min
The Martyrs’ Memorial
The three concrete palm fronds rising over the city in memory of the war of independence, and the esplanade at sunset.
The concierge’s advice
- The garden is large: wear good shoes and bring water.
- Opening days and hours vary; the concierge confirms them.