Tunis
Final resting place of Sidi Mehrez, Tunis’ patron saint. Women offer prayers here to be endowed with a husband or children.
Must-see attractions in Tunisia
Tunis
The walls of derelict buildings on this street have been used as open-air canvases by local street artists.
Hammamet
Pupput looks like a barren field sandwiched between two hotels, but it once had more prestige as a staging post on the Roman road from Carthage to…
Cap Bon
El Haouaria's dramatic, rocky coast was quarried by the Carthaginians and the Romans, who sought the highly prized, easily worked yellow sandstone for…
Tunisia
No one is quite sure what the original function of the Basilique might have been, but it seems to have been built in the 4th century as some sort of…
Hammamet
This square fortress, constructed of rammed earth and masonry, dates back to the 9th century, but it was heavily modified in the 1400s to become the city…
Cap Bon
Separated from the sea by a thin streak of white sand, Korba's long, narrow lagoon follows the coast for 8km. This dark-blue stretch of water is one of…
Tunisia
These cisterns, built by the Aghlabids in the 9th century, are more impressive because of their engineering sophistication than as sights in themselves…
Southern Tunisia
This small ksar (traditional fortified granary) is a good place to start your exploration of the ksour, although much of the 15th-century facade is no…
Hammamet
The first theme park in North Africa, CarthageLand is made up of five incongruous worlds where you can battle out the Punic Wars in bumper cars, shoot a…
Tunisia
Here a blinkered camel walks in a circle, drawing water from a 17th-century holy well that legend says is connected to the Zamzam spring in Mecca. It's…
Cathedral of St Vincent de Paul & St Olive
Tunis
There are some fine examples of colonial architecture in Centre Ville, ranging from the elegant to the exuberant to the bizarre. This custard-coloured…
Northern Tunisia
This fine statue of Tunisia's first president in reflective pose commemorates the exile of Habib Bourguiba to Tabarka by the French in the early 1950s…
Tunisia
The El Jem Amphitheatre was not the first such structure to be built at Thysdrus. Opposite the Archaeological Museum and across the railway line to the…
Djerba
Houmt Souk’s busy little fishing port is at the northern end of Ave Habib Bourguiba, about a 25-minute walk from town. Early mornings are the busiest and…
Southern Tunisia
The 8m-high waterfall below old Tamerza is popular with local day-trippers. In happier, wetter times, the falls made a pool large enough to swim in – a…
Tunisia
Mahdia's fortress-like Great Mosque is a modern replica of the Fatimid original built by Obeid Allah in AD 921, which was destroyed when retreating…
Tunisia
This museum occupies a former presidential palace at Raqqada, 9km south of Kairouan; a taxi from the town centre will charge around 12DT for a return trip…
Tunisia
The museum across the road from Sufetula has a small collection of mosaics, sculptures, stelae and other artefacts that have been found on the site and…
Tunisia
A good example of colonial-era architecture, this building dates from the late 19th century and initially functioned as the French consulate. It now…
Djerba
Near the town of El Kantara are the meagre ruins of Roman Meninx, an ancient trading post. Many of the ruins are visible from the road, especially west…
Bizerte
The richly decorated, lavishly tiled Zaouia of Sidi Mokhtar, is home to the Association de Sauvegarde de la Medina de Bizerte, the group responsible for…
Bizerte
The deconsecrated French-built cathedral, a grey concrete modernist structure with vertical stripes of stained glass, is now a cultural centre.
Djerba
Designed in the Djerban style and used by followers of the Maliki school of Islam, this mosque is one of the town's major landmarks.
Southern Tunisia
Gafsa's rather modest museum houses, among other things, a couple of large mosaics from ancient Capsa.
- placement: fullWidth
- path: Destinations/POIs/superzone
- possible size: [970, 250], [970, 90], [728, 90], [300, 250], [320, 50], [1, 1],
- targeting:
{ "position": "superzone" }
