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Blida Orange Blossom Festival in Blida
A spring orange blossom festival in Blida, the city of roses known for citrus orchards established through Andalusian-influenced Ottoman-era irrigation, celebrating fragrant orange, lemon and jasmine groves alongside orange blossom water production and the locally prized Blida mandarin variety at the gateway to the Atlas mountains.
Blida earned its nickname, the city of roses, alongside a parallel identity built on citrus, its orange groves established during the Ottoman period when Andalusian settlers brought advanced irrigation and gardening methods that transformed the surrounding land into what became known as a blooming oasis at the edge of the Atlas mountains.