Legend has it that after the Trojan War, the Greek hero Ulysses and his crew drifted in the Mediterranean Sea, and after seeing the white Tunisia surrounded by date palms, palms and olive trees on the seashore, he decided to take root here, and the white Tunisia has since been dyed with colorful colors.
From the point of view of the history or time of civilization, Tunisia is a door to the long history of Carthage, so it has been said: "When anyone comes to Tunisia, he will go to Carthage."
The city of Carthage was founded in 750 BC. Around the 6th century BC, Carthage became more powerful, expanding from the deserts of North Africa to the affluent Mediterranean. In the 3rd century BC, Carthage began to clash with Rome, a powerful state on the northern shore of the Mediterranean. The two sides began three protracted Punic Wars, which culminated in the fall of Carthage by the Romans. In 146 BC, thriving Carthage was burned to ashes by a fire that had burned for 10 days. Later, the Romans founded a new city of Carthage on the ruins. In the 7th century, the Arabs came on an expedition and Carthage was again destroyed. Since then, this jewel in the crown of the ancient Mediterranean queen has lost its former moving brilliance.
The ruins of today's ancient city of Carthage are not far from the city of Tunis, and although only ruins remain here, the prosperity of the past is still faintly recognizable. The scattered remnants of ancient monuments, the thick wall foundation made of huge stones, the broken granite columns, and the capitals carved with various decorative patterns such as flower baskets, curly leaves, lotus flowers, palm leaves, etc., show the grandeur and splendor of the ancient city architecture of that year, and also exude a decaying and dilapidated beauty.
What you see at the ruins of the ancient city of Carthage is not the noon of the once prosperous and powerful Carthaginian Empire, but the twilight of a decaying and declining Carthaginian... Today, the capital of Tunisia, Tunis, is thriving. Overlooking Tunis from the sky, the blue Mediterranean, the city shrouded in trees and the white mosque rooftops form a beautiful picture of nature. Like many ancient cities, Tunisia is divided into old and new cities. The Old City still retains its mysterious Arabian Oriental color, with Arab women in robes and veils wafting over the medina. The new city is full of high-rise buildings, wide and clean boulevards, refreshing and bright coffee shops, shopping malls and restaurants, which decorate the city with color. Stroll through the city and see the Mediterranean atmosphere greet you with melodious music spilling from the café.
Tunisia has a stunning Bachdo Museum. The museum displays the most outstanding and perfect ancient Roman mosaics in the world. The mosaic mosaics make people marvel at the greatness and magic of ancient art. Another landmark in Tunisia is the El Cem Colosseum, one of the most glorious buildings left in Africa by the ancient Roman Empire. The Colosseum is connected by arcades, wide and tall. While walking, it seems that walking through the ancient castle hall, I saw the tragic scene of people fighting between people and fighting between people and beasts, and it seemed to hear the heart-rending and desperate screams of the defeated and injured, as well as the deafening cheers and curses that erupted from the stands...
On the beach in Tunisia, sitting in an open-air café overlooking the sea, drinking the Tunisian favorite mint tea, it is wonderful to taste the rich and sweet taste. Sometimes, the meaning of travel is not just the photos left as souvenirs in the camera, but the things that the camera cannot fit and the words cannot express, such as the blue sea and sky. The sky here is so blue that it is impossible to compare it with the blue of other places - the blue sky sea in Scandinavia may be purer, but the color is too light; The blue sky and sea in the Indian Ocean off Phuket are too warmly blue. This is the blue that can only be felt at the site of Carthage, the blue sky and sea of the Mediterranean, the blue produced by the oldest confrontation between the sea and the desert.