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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 16 2024 | None
- Mineral Baths as an Archaeological and Touristic Landmarks and a Popular Heritage with Connotations of Therapeutic Culture in the Biskra Community - An Urban Anthropological Study -
Dr. Hanane Hammadi, Dr. Farouk Boulbir
Pages: 171-176
Abstract
The daily living of the people of Biskra city is full of activities, tasks and hard work due to its connection with environmental factors and its high temperature in many summer times, and the occasion in its moderation in winter. The community takes them as therapeutic places because of their health benefits, and places of meeting, acquaintance and self-entertainment, as it is inherited from the behaviors of ancestors to renew the vitality of the body and a source of clarity of mind, which is immortalized by the actual tangible impact on their heritage and practices, and the interests it supports in the social field, as the city It is replete with established and ancient landmarks, such as the Saliheen Bath, the El-HajebHammam, and new centers such as HammamSidiYahya. Add to this the bathrooms in the popular neighborhoods with their utilitarian connotations that contribute to the definition of the city, and push the wheel of tourism development towards a healthy environment that leads us to work on introducing anthropological tourism through promotion for internal and external medical tourism, for a tourism economic recovery.
Keywords
Baths, Archaeological landmark, Heritage, Therapeutic culture, Economic tourism recovery.
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