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Accommodation
The participants will be accommodated in tow hotel (four stars) el-kaala (M'sila) and Kerdada (Bousaada).

Transportation
The transportation by luxurious bus car from Algiers to M'sila will be arranged since the first June 2007 from Algiers and the fifth from M'sila.

Social Program
Two historical sites classed as world patrimonial by UNESCO are programmed:

1. Kalaa Beni Hammad (Maadid) which the construction corresponds this year at its millennium. In a mountainous site of one striking beauty, the ruins of the first capital of the hammadite emirs, founded in 1007 and dismantled in 1152, restore us the authentic image of a strengthened Moslem city. Its mosque, with room of prayer of 13 naves to eight spans, is one of largest of Algeria.

2. Djemila (roman historical city).
Walk through the ancient city, to discover the templates, the baptistery, the forum, the villas…Visit of the containing museum of very beautiful mosaics.

Hodna Region
The name of "Hodna" was allotted by the Arabs to any natural basin to the east of Algeria. Basin surrounded primarily by mountainous chains like those of Aures and Belazma in the east, the Boutaleb and Maadid (Kiyana and Ayadh) mountains in north, the mountains of Hodna of Ouanogha in the west, and finally the mountains of Bousaada (Kerdada and touaya ) in the south. In centre of Hodna, one finds the salted basin Salinae where the Hodna Rivers as Wad Ksob, Wad Bousaada, Wad Barika, and Wad Chellal flow into.

Historically, several developed civilizations followed one another in the area of Hodna. In fact, Hodna Knew the Roman presence of which remain certain show cities like Thubanae, Macri, Zabi and Aras (Tarmount); and also certain vestiges of Wad Cheir and more.

More over, Hodna knew the presence of Moslem civilization through the various Islamic Kingdoms installed especially with Thubanae (Tobna with Magra) and the Hammadite civilization in Maadid (Kalaa Beni Hammad).

From tourist point of view, Hodna contains sites and landscapes of an extreme beauty, quote the example of Ferrero-Mil (Bousaada), mountainous landscapes of Kerdada, which contains archaeological vestiges exploited by the primitive man, vestiges of Kalaa Beni Hammad (Maadid) whose construction corresponds this year to its millennium.

Finally, the are only certain historical elements, around civilizations, which followed one another and the geography, which testify and which characterize the beauty of Hodna, area famous by its history, its generosity, and its opening on the world.