2024

PRAGUE GARDEN (EX-MARENGO)

Parks and gardens

This sloping garden was set up by Colonel Marengo's military prisoners in 1833 on the location of a Muslim cemetery covering the remains of a Roman necropolis. A wide path crosses the park and winds through lush vegetation. The Queen's tomb was built in 1848 in memory of Queen Amélie, wife of Louis-Philippe I. This garden, which runs along the Emir Abdelkader lyceum (ex-Bugeaud), is rather poorly attended today.

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