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El Jem amphitheater
In the small straddling town of El Jem, rises the wonderful remains of the greatest coleseum in North Africa. It is a huge theatre with a total capacity of 35 000 seats. This third-century building illustrates the size and greatness of the Roman empire.
Punic city of Kerkouane and its necropole
Having been obviously deserted during the Punic war (around 250 BC), and not being rebuilt by the Roman, this Phenicina city provides the only vestiges remaining of a Phenico-Punic city. Its houses were built according to a specific typical plan and on the very of a very sophisticated urbanism pattern.
Dougga / Thugga
Prior to the Roman annexation of Bumidia, the city of Thugga, built on a hill overlooking a fertile plain, was the capital of a Libyco-Punic state. It was prosperous under the Roman and byzantine occupation, before declining during the Islamic era. The ruins, still visible today, bear witness to the resources of a small city on the borders of the Empire.
Kairouan
Founded in 670, the city of Kairouan was propsperous under the Aghlabide dynasty in the IXth century. In spite of the transfer of the political capital to Tunis, in the XIIth century, Kairouan did remain the first Holy city in the Maghreb. Its rich cultural heritage comprises, more notably, the Great Mosque, with its marble and porphyre columns, the three-door mosque, dating back to the IXth century.
Medina of Sousse
Sousse, important port commercial et militaire sous les Aghlabides (800-909), est un exemple typique de ville des premiers siècles de l'islam. Avec sa casbah, ses remparts, sa médina et sa Grande Mosquée, la mosquée Bu Ftata et son ribat typique, à la fois fort et édifice religieux, elle était l'un des éléments d'un système de défense de la côte.
Medina de Tunis
Under the reign of the Almohades and Hafsides, from the XIIth to the XVIth century, Tunis was considered as one of the most important cities and richest cities in the Islamic World. Some 700 monuments, such as palaces, mosques, mausoleums, medersas and fountains bear witness to this remarkable past.
National park of Ichkeul
The lake and wetlands of Ichkeul constitute an inevitable stop-over for hundreds of thousands of migrant birds – geese, ducks, swans, flamingos, etc – that would come to be fed and establish their nests there. The lake is considered as the last vestige in a series of lakes that used to stretch along the whole Maghreb region.
Archeological site of Carthage
Founded as early as the IXth century BC, on the Gulf of Tunis, Carthage established, in the VIth century, a commercial empire occupying a large area of the Mediterranean world and was the cradle of a glorious civilization. During the long Punic wars it occupied parts of the Roman empire, before being eventually destroyed in 146 BC. A second Carthage, of a Roman nature this time, was rebuilt on its premises.
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