English Translation

Nr.155 Stck. 7-s Abt.fif.Dt...Event WV Von deh Kriegerdenkmal on the highest point of the Elsens beyond the gorge offers the most free view of this magnificent work of nature. An isolated limestone-rock train, which breaks off the foreland up to 200 meters, was, however, cut by a sticky river at the time of the snow melt and heavy rain pouring quite enormous waves through the gorge and over the cascades, in tenacious thousands of years of work, which thus wanted to pave the way to the coast. The city of Blad el-Hawa, the city of the air, is located on this rocky cliff like a proud eagle's nest Con- stantine. The Arabs call the city in their illustrious language. Nature had laid a massive bar in front of access to the sea and, like the eyes of a watchful dog, the houses of the city's air lurked over the abyss to the north. The African Trnovo I called Constantine, so it reminded me of the wonderful location of the Bulgarian rock town. But here in Africa everything is much more gigantic, almost unbelievable in ups and downs. In the quarry, in boldly guided tunnels, a road descends and on the slope inclined towards the gorge, the houses of the Arab and Jewish city nest over and next to each other, hanging to the edge of the abyss. Topped by the massive building complex of the Kasba, the city fortress. In the background towards the end of the gorge zù the high modern tenements, which do not fit into this picture at all, wave too small for the size of nature and too stiff and too cold for the romance of the old city, stand like bad scenes behind a picturesquely beautiful scene. Unsuspected interesting, picturesque and still completely untouched by foreign tand is the Arab and Jewish city. Slowly we work through their winding alleys towards the center of the city. Hardly three people could walk side by side on these narrow streets, so close were the houses facing each other. Their bays, supported by sloping wooden poles, continued to jump forward until they almost collapsed, so that a soothing twilight in place of the shimmering