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Ksar Beni Isguen

Algeria · 14th century

Founded
1347
Heritage status
part of UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location
Bounoura
Coordinates
32.47522°, 3.69619°
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Ksar Beni Isguen in Algeria
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

At Isguen is an area in the M'zab, located near Ghardaïa in the northern Algerian Sahara, south of the capital Algiers. It has been classified as a World Heritage Site of humanity by UNESCO.

Machine-translated from “بني يزقن” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Ksar Beni Isguen ranks #3,028 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #7 of the 24 mapped in Algeria. Founded 1347, it is older than 57% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 758 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,119 times in the last 60 days, more than 53% of the atlas. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Algeria compares in the castle statistics.

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