Tipasa

Tipasa was a Punic trading post that became a Roman colonia and later an important early Christian center on the coast of central Algeria, about twenty kilometers east of Caesarea, on the site of the modern city of Tipaza. The ancient city reached a population of around 20,000 by the fourth century AD and contains three major Christian basilicas from the third and fourth centuries, including the largest surviving basilica remains in modern Algeria, associated with the martyr Saint Salsa; a 1961 stele there honors the writer Albert Camus. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982 and was listed as a World Heritage Site in Danger from 2002 to 2006 because of coastal erosion.