Tunis is a relaxed capital, which is a perfect introduction to Tunisia before leaving to explore the country.The heart of the central city is Medina (the old city), where the simple walk on the wavy alleys is the main tourist attraction.
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The two major things to do in the city are both outside the center.The famous Bardo museum hosts one of the most important mosaic collections in the world.Visitors sitting at the Hammamet and Sousse beach resorts come on a day trips to the Capital simply to visit this museum.The other major historical attraction are the remnants of ancient Cartagina , scattered in a suburb on the Tunis bank.
When you absorb enough history during your stay in Tunis, one of the best places to visit is Sidi Bou Said.This white village in white is a Mediterranean idyll right on the outskirts of the city.
Best period
The weather is good throughout the year in Tunis
On average the hottest months are July and August
The coldest months are January and February
The best months for swimming are June, July, August, September and October
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The wonderful neighborhood on the coast in Andalusian style Sidi Said owes the fame of the three young painters.As they lived here, in 1914, Paul Klee, August Macke and Louis Milliet surprised the beauty of white buildings and blue doors on canvas.his charm), but you cannot be deceived by the perfect white-blue streets, the cafes on the rocks and the postcard shores.
The sumptuous palace but Hussein was built in the eighteenth century and restored in the 19th century.An eighteenth-century palace that was used to the headquarters of the People's Museum of the city (the traditional heritage Museum in Ville de Tunis).Exhibits include tile, stucco ornaments, costumes and furniture.
The remnants of the old Carthage - the legendary rich navigation city of the Phoenicians - are scattered in the Gulf Tunis.Î.Hr., Pale survivor ruins compared to some of the other ancient North Africa sites, but that does not mean you should not visit them.With their decoration on the seafront, the ruins have an unbeatable, lost air.From the center of the city, take the tunis light train line directly to the different stations in the cartagina on the line.Some of the sites are close enough to be walking between them if it is not too hot. It does not jump over the views across the area at the top of Byrsa hill.
The village of Amazigh (Berber) Takrouna is 110 kilometers south of Tunis.If you are only on a quick journey to Tunisia, this is one of the closest capital places to experience some of the traditional architecture of the village cut into stone and roof with the country.Families still live in the village.You can enter a few houses, so that visitors can see the traditional interior decorations of the village and there is a small cafe that serves simple local dishes.Sousse.
This Ottoman style mosque is the name of Marabout (holy man) of the tenth century Mohammed Mahzes Es Seddiki ("Ascetul"), which is the Islamic equivalent of a Holy Patron of the City.It is a graceful building with nine white domes.He is buried over the road from the mosque.
At Goulette is the port of the capital and it was a place of strategic importance (entry control) from time immemorial.At Goulette he became a port only in the French colonial period, when Lake Tunis clogged and could not take ships of any dimension. In visiting the tourist objectives, La Goulette has Spanish and Ottoman forts to be explored and the entrance gate of the old Arsenal (on Tunis Road).The coast (Avenue Franklin Rossevelt) is the top place for the promenade in La Goulette.Beyond the modern port, the long stretch of sandy beach is one of the top places of the city for evening and weekend relaxation.
One of the three most famous collections of mosaic art in the world (the other two are both in Turkey) is in this opulent museum of the palace.Important, with their renowned, incredibly well-preserved floors from the Mosaic from the Hellenistic and Roman era, but the entire collection deserves an afternoon of browsing. In the parter of the building has some interesting exhibits that are not mosaic, with exhibitions of the neo-Pupic, Christian and Islamic era.
This welcome greenery is one of the top places of the city to draw your soul and regroup from the agitation of the crowded streets.).The park also hosts the zoo of the city.
A world away from the organic mix of Medina, Ville Nouvelle in Tunis was developed during the French colonial era.The street is heading to the east, just outside the medina on the place of Indépendance to the port, in a straight straight line.His voluminous Neoromanic facade presupposes the northern end of the Indépendance Light and, at the time of construction in 1893, was a monumental memory of France's domination.Inside is the grave of the unknown soldier.D 'Afrique has a clock monument that symbolizes the modern era of Tunisia.
The Great Mosque of the Medina District houses some of the best examples of religious architecture.Started during the Omayyade dynasty in 732 AD, it was added and refined by the conquest of the empires in the centuries afterwards.tile. N Nacoriș is also one of the best places in Medina to get panoramic photos of the area.
These two streets (and their surrounding alleys) in Medina host a lot of precious architectural stones and are a wonderful place to capture a feeling of what the old city would have shown before modernization.(Rue du Tribunal) from the eighteenth century is another generous example of a palace style.
