Tunis City
Located on the Gulf of Tunis on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Tunis City is a beautiful coastal city with a population of about 1.2 million. Tunisia is a city where Arabic architecture meets modern architecture. The old city of Medina still retains its quaint Arabian Oriental color. Although the old city wall no longer exists, nearly ten gates are still well preserved, including Haimen, which connects the old and new cities, and Sukamen, which connects the old city to the suburbs. The bustling and lively street in the city center is Bourguiba Street, lined with trees, book kiosks and flower stalls. At the east end of the street is Republic Square, where a bronze statue of President Bourguiba stands. At the west end is Independence Square, with a bronze statue of the famous ancient Tunisian historian Kardun. A short distance east of the city center is the railway station and harbour, and to the north is the scenic Belviday Park in the city. The famous ancient Roman aqueduct aqueduct passes through the agricultural area of the western suburbs. Due to its proximity to Europe, Tunisia is often a centre for international conferences.
●1. Carthage●
Carthage is located 17 km northeast of the city of Tunis. It was founded by the Phoenicians in 814 BC, 61 years before the city of Rome. It was the capital of Carthage, a powerful slave state in the Mediterranean, and was the political, economic, commercial and agricultural center of the Mediterranean region of North Africa at the time. The main buildings of that time were 34 kilometers long, 13 meters high and 8 meters thick, as well as palaces, temples, villas, houses, public baths, arenas, racetracks, theaters, cemeteries and harbors, which are still faintly recognizable today. Among them, the famous Antonian bath, built during the time of the Roman Emperor Antony in the 2nd century AD, has a Christian church site in the ancient city, which is the earliest Christian church in Tunisia. Most of the relics from the Phoenician era excavated are tombs, sarcophagi, tomb objects, etc.
●2. Medina●
Medina is the old city of Tunisia, and "Medina" means "city" in Arabic. It is a city with the traditional style of the Arab nation. The city has a history of more than 1,300 years. In the city center there is the Great Mosque of Zaituna, and the medina is spread out on all sides around this mosque. The urban area consists mainly of commercial shops, handicraft workshops and residential buildings. There are no modern buildings here, and the tallest dwellings are only two floors. The city's Arabian market is full of Arabian terroir, and in the narrow and curvy alleys with vaulted roofs and stone floors, only two people can pass opposite each other. The markets were one after the other, shops were one after the other, and each alley was usually concentrated in a single industry, producing specific goods, maintaining a feudal, scattered mode of small workshop production. There are Copper Alley, Gold and Silver Jewelry Alley, Spice Alley, Clothing Alley, Hat Alley, Olive Wood Alley, Leather Alley, Antique Alley, Food Alley, etc.
●3. Bardo National Museum●
The National Museum of Bardo is the largest museum in the Maghreb region and the second largest in Africa. Located on Plaza Bardo, northwest of the Tunisian capital. It was built in 1882 and completed in 1888. The museum is a tall three-story building on the site of the imperial palaces. There are more than 40 halls and galleries in the museum, and the exhibits are divided into 6 historical periods: prehistoric, Phoenician, Roman, Christian, Arab-Islamic and Greek art. The tens of thousands of exhibits on display in the museum are collected from nearly 100 monuments across the country. The museum is famous for its collection of colorful mosaics from all periods of Tunisia's history. Mosaics are small squares of small stone, pottery, enamel and tinted glass, and are mainly used to decorate ceilings, walls and floors. The mosaics on the floor and walls of each hall in the museum account for about 3/5 of the entire exhibits.
Distant and seductive Tunisia
Tunisia has a history of more than 3000 years and has left behind more than 200 monuments of great value in the world. Due to its superior geographical location and numerous places of interest, it has unique conditions for the development of tourism. Northern Tunisia has a pleasant climate and beautiful scenery, soft and flat beaches, up to 10 hours of sunshine and beaches open all year round. There are world-famous sites from the Carthaginian, Roman, Vandal and Byzantine periods. Tunisia now has a number of modern tourist centres. Enthusiastic Tunisians welcome visitors with their smiles, jasmine garlands, and a cup of hot tea. Although the country is not large, the scenery is so varied: from mountain scenery to desert plateaus, from green olive trees to palm trees by the sea, plus the occasional mirage in the desert, it can all make you want to be addicted and linger.
●4. Kairouan ●
Kairouan is located in the east-central part, on the alluvial plain on the southeastern slope of the Atlas Mountains, 155 kilometers north of Tunis City, and is now the fourth largest city in Tunisia. It was founded by the Arabs after their victory over Byzantium in 670 AD and was the first fully Arabized city in the Maghreb. Tunisians believe that 7 pilgrimages to Kairouan are tantamount to a pilgrimage to Mecca. There are more than 100 mosques in the city, of which the Sidi Okbar Mosque is the oldest, built in 670 AD and expanded twice, and is a magnificent building with an Arabic style. With 80,000 inhabitants, Kairouan is a distribution center for wool, leather, grain, olive oil, and is famous for its refined Tunisian leather, carpets, bronze and more. Almost every family in the city has one or two carpet looms, and the carpet weaving industry in Tunisia originated from Kairouan, so Kairouan is also known as the "land of carpets".
● 5. Sousse ●
Sousse is the third largest city in Tunisia, located on the southern shore of Hammamet Bay in the Mediterranean Sea. The old city is in the southern district, and the northern part is a newly built modern city, which contrasts sharply with the southern district with its typical Arabic style. Standing high in the city and looking around, the blue Mediterranean, green city, white walls and blue windows of Arab buildings, layer by layer on the hillside, hidden in the date grove, is a beautiful Arabic landscape painting. It has warm winters and cool summers, a pleasant climate and attractive golden sandy beaches. To the north of the city of Sousse is the tourist center of Cantawi, with entertainment piers, sea clubs, hockey fields, tennis courts, nightclubs, cafes and bars. The tourist center has built a quaint Arabian-style tourist villa and Andalusian house on the seaside, elegant, comfortable and well-equipped.
● 6. Jem Amphitheater ●
The Colosseum is the site of a large amphitheater in Tunisia's Roman era. The village of Cem, located between the cities of Sousse and Sfax in eastern Tunisia. Built in 230~238 AD, it is the third oldest and best-preserved ancient Roman arena in the world. This magnificent Oval Arena, with a long axis of 148 meters and a short axis of 122 meters, is built with large stones 1 meter long, 70 cm wide and 50 cm high, with 3 arcades, each with 60 arches and a total height of 36 meters. The grandstand is wide on all sides, with 18 rings of seating and four levels of boxes that can accommodate about 35,000 spectators. 5 meters underground on the east side of the site, there are two rows of cave houses, holding prisoners of war and lions, tigers, leopards and other beasts. There are two openings leading to the field, with stone steps on one side and straight openings on the other, and during fighting, people come up from the stone steps, and beasts bounce to the ground on a springboard.
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