El-Atteuf Travel Information and Travel Guide - Algeria

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Introducing El-Atteuf

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El-Atteuf is the oldest city of the M’Zab and it costs DA200 for a guide, who you can pick up at the office of the Association Tadjnint pour le Tourisme at l’Artisanat El- Atteuf Ghardaïa (029 875038; tadjnint@caramail.com). The main reason to come to El-Atteuf is to see themosque of Sidi Brahim. Some 700 years old, it’s a simple white building complete with curved walls, arches and inclined pillars made from palm trunks. It contains the remains of Sidi Brahim, a Muslim scholar, and is said to have inspired the French architect Le Corbusier to build a church in a similar fashion in France: the Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp.