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What to see and do — Chlef

The Chéliff valley has been inhabited since antiquity. Under the Romans, it was a prosperous agricultural region (Castellum Tingitanum, old name). In the Middle Ages, Chlef passed under Almoravid then Almohad authority. The Ottomans attached it to the Western beylik. The French penetrated in 1843 and founded the modern city as Orléansville, in honor of the Orléans dynasty. On September 9, 1954, a major earthquake already hit the city (~1,500 dead). At independence, Orléansville resumed the name El Asnam. On October 10, 1980, a new devastating earthquake (magnitude 7.3) destroyed 80% of buildings, killing 2,600 and injuring 8,000 — one of the worst Mediterranean earthquakes of the 20th century. The city was rebuilt and renamed Chlef. Today it's a major agricultural and industrial hub.

• 📍Chéliff Valley — Algeria's longest river (725 km), fertile farming plain, century-old olive groves
• 📍Ténès Beach — Seaside resort 50 km north, fishing port, beaches and Mediterranean coastline
• 📍Beni Hassan Forest — Forest massif to the west, pine and cork-oak, hikes and summer freshness
• 📍1980 Earthquake Memorial — Commemorative monument to victims, memorial site of the tragedy
• 📍Regional Museum — Roman archaeology (Castellum Tingitanum), valley ethnography
• 📍Historic Mosque — Ottoman and colonial architecture, rebuilt after the earthquake