Heritage

Choosing Tunisia means being able to choose between an incredible variety of prestigious or unfamiliar places for programmes and events.

Imposing Roman monuments, troglodyte villages, medinas with their timeless charm, sumptuous Arab-Moorish palaces: Tunisia’s heritage is a unique mixing pot of history and civilisations.

Heritage

Choosing Tunisia means being able to choose between an incredible variety of prestigious or unfamiliar places for programmes and events.

Imposing Roman monuments, troglodyte villages, medinas with their timeless charm, sumptuous Arab-Moorish palaces: Tunisia’s heritage is a unique mixing pot of history and civilisations.

Tunisia: the ‘granary of Rome’ in classical times

The El Jem Colosseum, nearly as big as that in Rome, is the most gigantic of the many ruins left by Roman Tunisia, the heir to Phoenician Carthage. In video, some of the other very striking classical sites: Thuburbo Majus, Bulla Regia, Carthage, Dougga, Sbeïtla, Makthar, Oudhna, Utique.

Tunisia’s medinas:
from Kairouan to Tunis

The Grand Mosque of Kairouan is one of the most famous in the world, and the town of Kairouan possesses one of the most beautiful medinas in Tunisia. These historical quarters are usually magnificently preserved. They retain their magical atmosphere, whether in Tunis, Sousse, Mahdia, Nabeul, Sfax.

Nature and heritage

In Sidi Mechreg, the remains of an old French trading post stand at the edge of the beach. In Tunisia, in every part of the countryside, history is omnipresent.

A Roman aqueduct in the middle of the landscape, a little Carthaginian town caught between sea and forest, an abandoned Berber village in the mountains, all bear witness to the rich past of this little land.

Ksour and villages of the Great South

The village of Guermessa is certainly one of the most spectacular of the Sahara area. Perched on a mountain like an eagle’s eyrie, it overlooks the desert plateaux.

This part of south-eastern Tunisia, the Dahar, is not only known for its grandiose landscapes; unsuspected buildings, the Ksour, fortified collective granaries, are to be found there. And one can see oil presses dug into the rock, even troglodyte dwellings.

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