Batna, Algeria
Buttafoco Camp Monument
The Monument of the Buttafoco camp, also known as the monument to the dead of the Count of Buttafoco's camp, the inaugural stone or stele of the city of Batna, is a monument designed by Colonel Jean-Luc Carbuccia and erected at his initiative on August 19, 1849, to commemorate the capture of the site by the French army. Originally located at the northern entrance of the current city of Batna in Algeria, the monument suffered many damages throughout its existence, especially during the 1871 insurrection or during its extraction in the 1990s and its relocation to build a new bus station at its original location between 2008 and 2013. It was then located in front of the new bus station of the…
- City
- Batna
- Country
- Algeria
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
Background: Wikipedia