UJDA
 

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Photo Les^y.
Ujda : Bab Sidi Abd El Uahab, or Gate of the Heads.
 

For communications with France,  see Approaches, p. 55.

Timetable. — Half a day is sufficient to visit Ujda. The picturesque
features of which are chiefly concentrated in the vicinity of the rue des
Marches (p. 240),  and to drive to Ain Sidi Yahia (p. 240).

UJDA, the headquarters of the Region Civile d'Oudjda (Pop.
272,000), is situated in the plain of the Angad, at an alt of 638 m.
Of its 22,000 inhab., 4,800 are French, while there are 3,000 other
Europeans, 13,000 Moslems and 1,300 .lews.

The Medina, narrowly confined within lofty bastioned aud
battlemented ramparts, is bordered to eastwards by a belt, 1 k,
wide, of extensive and very fruitful gardens, from 1,500 to 1,750
acres in area, planted with olives and fruit-trees, and watered by
canals {seguias) deriving their water from Ain Sidi Yahia (p. 240).
After settling for a time in the W. portion of the old town, duly
cleansed and drained, the Europeans erected jiew buildings
N,, W. and S. of the outer wall, laying out public squares
and nursery gardens on the site of the projected New Town, The
camp lies farther S., the railway station 1,500 m, to the N.

Railway Station: -^Common to the
Ouest-Algerien and the military rail¬
way.—Custom house.
 

Omnibuses :—to the Hotel Simon
and the Hotel Central, 1 fr. per head.
 

Hotels •.—Transatlantique (Pl, a,
B3), r. de Maghnia; Simon, ne:^t doQf
to the above (45 R,, omn., teleph.,oiect.
1.,baths, writing-room),•C'cniraZfomn.),
Route de Berguent; Maroc-IIdtel.