Hammam Boughrara

Hammam Boughrara in the Tlemcen wilaya of northwestern Algeria rises in the shadow of the Tlemcen mountains, whose medieval Islamic capital city was described by the fourteenth-century traveller Ibn Battuta as one of the finest cities in the Maghreb, adorned with the extraordinary Almoravid, Almohad, and Zianid architectural heritage of the great Mansourah mosque, the Sidi Boumediene mausoleum complex, and the el-Eubbad quarter that rank among the supreme achievements of western Islamic art and architecture. The bicarbonate-rich spring water of Hammam Boughrara provides thermal bathing in a region whose extraordinary concentration of Islamic heritage from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries represents the high point of Algerian civilisation during the medieval period, making any thermal experience in this corner of Algeria an encounter with one of the Arab world's most culturally magnificent historical landscapes. The combination of extraordinary Islamic architectural heritage, the Tell Atlas mountain scenery, and the traditional Berber and Arab cultures of the Tlemcen region create a thermal destination of remarkable historical and cultural significance.