Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti

The Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti, named after former foreign minister Mohamed Khemisti, is a major artery and public space in Algiers.

The boulevard runs upwards from east to west, starting near the seashore and ending at the esplanade in front of the Government Palace.

The boulevard was created on the location of former fortifications built by the French colonial regime following the destruction of the eastern ramparts of the city at the level of the fort of Bab Azoun and the extension of the urbanization in the direction of the suburb of Agha.

It was then named for Édouard Laferrière, a distinguished jurist who had died in mid-1901 shortly after the end of his service as French Governor-General of Algeria.

The grounds were acquired in 1900 by a private company, the Compagnie foncière et immobilière de la Ville d'Alger, which developed it as they were made available by the military.