With its marina and its monuments magniiques, Monastir is one of the traditional stages of the discovery of the country.
You can walk around the marina which is in Port El Kantaoui, but smaller. The nasty port offers many activities, including:
Relax on the terrace of a cafe
Make a trip to one of the many ships
Discover the undersea diving enthusiasts, or even for beginners (Diving Center information)
Monastir is also the birthplace of President Bourguiba, the place of burial, Mausole Bourguiba is a magnificent building it! Other interesting monuments to see are:
The built in 796 Ribat fortress overlooking the city's Great Mosque, built in the ninth century, was extended by Zirid the eleventh century. Bourguiba Mosque, religious building, a luxurious decoration peculiar to Tunis, but you can not see!
As in most cities in Tunisia, you can wander through the souks of the medina and buy many souvenirs, but do not forget to bargain! Finally, you can still swim and sunbathe, this coastal city of 35 550 inhabitants, offers beautiful beaches, although full in high season.

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Kairouan is a city of Tunisia, of 72,000 inhabitants located a few miles west of Sousse. It is a great religious center and arisanat with its beautiful carpets. Pastry chefs make the best makrouds Tunisia

Sites to visit:
Great Mosque
The mosque's barber
The Mosque of the Three Doors
Cuenca Aghlabites
Medina and many things.

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Located a few kilometers from the capital (60 km) and Nabeul (6 km) at the entrance to Cap Bon, Hammamet (12,000 inhabitants) is known primarily as a place of peace and leisure. In Djerba, Hammamet is one of the main destinations Tunisienne, a privilege that is the presence of several tourist areas of the hotel plagued clubs around the city and along the beaches, welcoming thousands of visitors from around the world.


At the beginning of the century, Hammamet is a quiet little town surrounded by walls resistant streets full of charm, dating from the XV which reinforces a citadel (kasbah). Nothing, but expect a large fortune if it is the beautiful sandy beaches stretching for several kilometers around the Gulf, the mild climate and the gardens planted with orange, tangerine, lemon, which is known throughout the Cape well. The city was launched at the end of 20 years. West shakes when the earthquake of 29 billionaires and settle in other suns. A Romanian, Georges Sebastian Hammamet and discovered he had a villa. He invited his friends. Seduced by the charm of the place, and then acquire some small houses in the medina transform your taste, while others prefer to build sumptuous villas on the field to mimic the traditional Arab-Muslim Villa Sebastian. The Centre Georges Sebastian is requisitioned in 1943 by Rommel, who set up his headquarters. After the war, the rich Romanian not returning to their home free and donated to the government of Tunisia in 1959. It becomes a cultural center, whose open-air theater, added to the inner garden of the villa in 1964, every summer a major international festival, second only to that of Carthage. Downtown (also tourists), though pleasant, is fairly typical, but friendly and lively. The surroundings are a suburb of the sea and the shops are full of leather and carpets. Interestingly, back and forth from local fishermen. Although it is very different from that of the desert, often offering camel rides.


A little history: The Hammamet promontory was fortified for the first time in 904 by the Emir Ibrahim Aghlabids II. She shares her experience of seats, battles and bloodshed with the Norman invasion, occupation Hafsid the confrontation between the pirates and the Spanish ... Dragut seizure in 1560, presented in vain naval blockade of Andrea Doria, the garrison was the victim of a ruse of the Trojan horse type in 1602, when 300 Knights of Malta came disguised as Muslim and Arab music playback. Where they were welcomed with open arms and rushed to the city to sack. It was known in Europe, Hammamet played a modest role in the Civil War in Tunisia. Dey call Hajji Ali Laz refuge there in 1673. Having attempted a revolt against Mourad Bey II, was murdered and buried in the casbahs. When the French advanced in Hammamet in 1881, residents helped to push the first column in El-Arba'in. With these reinforcements, the French took over quickly, but, however, Hammamet won a small victory for nature typically seductive Captain Bordier, commandant of the place, so the city s'éprit resigned to retirement.


see:


Fifteenth-century Kasbah, is a former barracks of the Legion. Be reached either through the souk, or through the old gate of the Sea (Bab el-Bahar). Restored in 1977 - 1979, the court has only a few trees, three pistols and unassembled undated and the Marabout of Sidi Bou Ali. The walk along the walls that is worthwhile and offers a splendid panorama of the city and region. A small Arabic coffee is in the top of the upper wall.


-The Museum of Private Hammamet is situated in the medina. On display bridal gowns and ensembles from all regions of Tunisia


"The International Cultural Centre of Hammamet villa was built in the Romanian millionaire Georges Sebastian. The theater, located in the gardens with lush vegetation, was designed according to the old organization of space and Thursday This is the place every year in July and August the International Festival.


-Sidi Djedidi The site, near Hammamet is a Roman site, featuring a collection of mosaics.


"The medina is surrounded by a high to shore emparts Once such racoleur inevitably mini-souk, ride in the city and around the walls is fun.

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Djerba is an island located in southern Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabes. With its 92,270 inhabitants and 510 km ², is the headquarters of Souk Houmt. Djerba is a large palm grove and pleasant climate. Very touristy, is the island of Lotophages Odyssey. The name and the evocation of the island's southern Tunisia have become synonymous with vacation and relax. Djerba is an international leader. The range of opens multiple and varied activities (tennis, skiing, horseback riding to scuba diving, cultural festivals to discover the palm).


to see in the city:


The remains of El Kantara, some shops and a Christian basilica, the last remnants of the ancient town of Menin The Ghriba in Djerba is one of the oldest Jewish temples in the world and is every May, the place of pilgrimage of several thousand Jews from around the world.


The Borj el-Kabir, is a very old-Arab XV century, built during the reign of Abi Amir al-Hafsi Rates (in Hafsids dynasty), which was reinforced by the pirate Dragut and extended by the Spanish in the sixteenth century . The inside of the excavations have revealed the first fort dating from the thirteenth century. In one room, an exhibition of the discoveries made during excavations in the history of the fortress. A panoramic view of the walls to see the port and the Obelisk, 9 meters high, reminiscent of the location of Borj-er-Rous (the tower of skulls erected by the corsair Dragut).


The Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions is located in an old Zaouia built in the late eighteenth century in honor of the wise and Sidi Sidi Ameur Zitouni and offers a splendid collection of costumes of all ethnic groups, wedding dresses, ceramics, jewelry, wooden boxes ... Various craft workshops have been reconstituted in the Khydal Gubbt (the dome of ghosts), Sidi Zitouni was room for the mentally ill in order to heal.


Flamants Island is a peninsula north of the island that is worth it for its beauty, but tourism. It is best to go early in the morning.


Houmt Souk souks. Those in the center are covered in galleries and sells most of the fabrics, carpets and tourist items. All around specialist souks: Goldsmith Chaudronniers Souk blacksmiths and offering prices much more interesting than the souks of downtown.

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Carthage is a beautiful city with warm colors, located near Tunis from 814-813 BC. J.-C.. Built by the Phoenicians, the tires you can see the city three thousand feet and the remains of lost civilizations. The area where the ruins of Punic Salammbô was named in honor of Gustave Flaubert's novel. She has many ruins of the Roman period (amphitheater, Odéon, baths, aqueduct, necropolis of the second s). It became a Roman colony, first constructed in 122 BC. AD then by Caesar in 44 BC. JC is open to the penetration of Christianity and became prosperous. They then attached the Byzantine Empire, then conquered by the Arabs in 698.

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