"In spring Tipasa is inhabited by gods and gods speak in the sun and the smell of absinthes, the sea bathed in silver, the blue sky unbleached, the ruins covered with flowers and the light with big bouillons in the heaps of stones... Barely at the bottom of the landscape can I see the black mass of Chenoua which takes root in the hills around the village and shakes at a safe and heavy pace to go and squat in the sea. "Albert Camus, Wedding.A few kilometres after Aïn Tagourirt (ex-Bérard), the road on the left towards Sidi Rached leads to the Royal Mausoleum of Mauritania, better known as the Tomb of the Christian. At the entrance to Tipasa, the tourist complexes of Tipasa-Village (CET), currently closed because it is being restored, and the Corne d'Or, whose total restoration is almost finished but which is partially open, were designed by Fernand Pouillon in 1968. They occupy a privileged position in Kouali Creek. Composed of bungalows with whitewashed walls, these complexes were inspired by traditional Mediterranean and Moorish architecture. Tipasa, protected from the west winds by Mount Chenoua, is an ancient Phoenician trading post founded in the 5th century BC. Tipasa has kept its Phoenician name, which means "stopover", probably because of its location on a rugged coastline that is not very suitable for anchoring.It was under the reign of the Numidian king Juba II that Tipasa began to develop. From the 1st century onwards, it became an important Roman colony, experiencing Greco-Roman artistic influences and extending westwards on the site of an ancient necropolis. When Christianity reached the shores of Africa, Tipasa became an influential centre of the new monotheistic religion, one of whose figures was a certain Salsa, a young saint and martyr, to whom a basilica, built near the eastern necropolis, was dedicated. In 430, the 2 km long Tipasa wall did not resist the Vandal invasion led by King Generic. In 484, the Arian heresy imposed by the vandal king Hunéric on the inhabitants and the struggles between Catholics and Donatists led to the ruin of the city and the flight of the population in Spain. A century later, like Cherchell, Tipasa was taken over by the Byzantines before being occupied by the Arabs.

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Vestiges de la cité antique de Tipasa. Jean-Paul LABOURDETTE
Littoral de Tipasa. Jean-Paul LABOURDETTE
Mausolée circulaire du site archéologique de Tipasa. Sébastien CAILLEUX
Vestiges de la cité antique de Tipasa. Jean-Paul LABOURDETTE
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