About forty kilometres south of Blida and at an altitude of 920 m, the Roman Lambdia lies in the centre of a depression dug by the Chiffa river between the Blidean Atlas and the Ouarsenis massif, at the foot of the Djebel Nador (1,108 m). The present city, founded by the Fatimids and fortified by the Ottomans, developed around the cultivation of fruit trees brought by the Andalusians, before becoming one of the symbols of resistance against the French in the mid-19th century. Under the Ottoman regency, it was said of her: "Medea, city of abundance; if evil enters in the morning, it comes out in the evening". Today Medea is above all an administrative and residential city, without much interest for tourists but its surroundings are interesting. Among the sites not to be missed: the monastery of Tibhirine. It should be noted that the city was shaken in 2016 by a violent earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, which caused minor material damage and 65 people were injured. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

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