Travel Guide Bologhine

The Corniche route crosses the town of Bologhine whose full name is Bologhine Ibn-Ziri, the name of the founder of El Djazaïr Beni-Mezghana. In 1848 it was renamed Saint-Eugène, in tribute to the civilian administrator of the city of Algiers, Eugène Guyot. In colonial times, Saint-Eugène was a bourgeois area of Algiers, as still evidenced by the succession of villas sometimes reminiscent of small castles. Some of these villas were inhabited by wealthy traders, others were abandoned, as this old isolated remains below the road, on the tip of the Deux-Mills. After La Watch and its beach, known as «Casseroles», the former casino of La Corniche (formerly Saint-Eugène), sadly famous for being the target of a bomb imposed on June 9, 1957 by pro-independence activists, claimed many victims. He is currently occupied by a police commissioner.