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Medea Cherry Festival in Medea
A spring cherry harvest festival in Medea, a Tell Atlas mountain plateau province south of Algiers whose elevated, well-watered agricultural zone supports temperate fruit cultivation, showcasing cherry tastings, displays and sales alongside cultural performances and craft markets in one of Algeria's key farming regions each year.
Medea sits on a plateau in the Tell Atlas mountains roughly ninety kilometers south of Algiers, at the watershed for the Cheliff river and surrounded by hills covered in vineyards and orchards that give the region its identity as one of Algeria's key agricultural zones, cultivating cereals, olives, figs, vegetables and aromatic plants alongside the cherry orchards this festival specifically celebrates.