Jardin d'Essai du Hamma
حديقة التجارب الحامة
A large experimental botanical garden founded in 1832, with French- and English-style gardens and avenues of palms and dragon trees that run all the way to the sea.
The Hamma Botanical Garden (Jardin d'Essai du Hamma, حديقة التجارب الحامة) covers about 32 hectares and was founded in 1832. It is one of the most important botanical gardens in the Mediterranean region, with thousands of tropical and subtropical plants. The garden is divided into a formal, symmetrical French garden and a winding English garden. Its iconic palm avenue, dragon-tree avenue and huge fig trees are very photogenic, and some scenes from the 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man are said to have been shot here. The garden also has a small zoo. The National Museum of Fine Arts stands on the slope to the south, and outside the garden a cable car climbs to the Maqam Echahid. Take the metro to the Jardin d'Essai station. Entry is inexpensive.
Opening hours
about 08:00–18:00 (longer in summer)
Nearby sights
- National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers
- Maqam Echahid & Riadh El Feth
- Promenade des Sablettes
- Grande Poste d'Alger
- Rue Didouche Mourad & Downtown
- Bardo National Museum (Algiers)
- Sacred Heart Cathedral of Algiers
- National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art