Rue Didouche Mourad & Downtown
شارع ديدوش مراد
Algiers’ main street, lined with white-walled, blue-shuttered Ottoman-style apartment buildings, with cafés, bookstores and boutiques, ideal for an urban stroll.
Didouche Mourad Street runs south from the area around the Central Post Office to near the Sacred Heart Cathedral. Together with the parallel Larbi Ben M’hidi Street (formerly Rue Isly) and Emir Abdelkader Square, it forms the downtown area built during the French colonial period. White façades, blue shutters and cast-iron balconies on the apartment buildings are the source of the city’s “White City” nickname. Along the street are old-established cafés, pastry shops, bookstores and clothing stores, and you can also visit the Bardo Museum, Liberty Park and the National Theatre nearby. It is recommended to walk south from the Central Post Office for about 1–2 hours. The street is busiest in the evening.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Sacred Heart Cathedral of Algiers
- National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art
- Bardo National Museum (Algiers)
- Grande Poste d'Alger
- Citadel of Algiers (Dar Es Soltane)
- Ketchaoua Mosque
- Martyrs' Square
- Dar Mustapha Pacha