The streets are straight, lined with villas and public buildings, city hall, post office, station, office buildings, shops ... There are buildings constructed in the Art Nouveau style as the Municipal Theater, the main thoroughfare, the Avenue Bourguiba.
This is one of four theaters built in this style in the world. Among the sites to visit, the Postal Museum, which has a complete collection of all stamps issued in Tunisia, foreign stamps, postcards, old devices or cable transmission. The central market is bustling. It opens early in the morning and closes around 13-14 h.
The walk there is very pleasant and appetizing. Vegetables, fruits and fish are abundant and fresh. All around, small shops and department stores sell all kinds of food: various cereals, dried fruit, dried figs, dates, salt meat, salted variety of olives, cheeses ...
Opposite, stands the imposing building of the Embassy of France, which occupies an entire block. At the end of the Avenue Bourguiba, we find the station TGM (Tunis-Goulette-Marsa) from which trains for the northern suburbs. You go through the Goulette Kram, Salammbo, Carthage, Sidi Bou Said, with terminal in Marsa.
The Medina is the traditional city. And that of Tunis is considered one of the most beautiful medinas of the Maghreb. Zitouna Mosque Street is lined with shops selling handicrafts, souvenir and antique shops. Zitouna Mosque (Grand Mosque) is the largest in Tunis and the most important religious center of the Maghreb countries. It was found in 732 and was completely rebuilt in the ninth century. It reveals a courtyard surrounded by a colonnade at ancient capitals.
There are other beautiful mosques in Tunis: Mosque El Ksar (built in 1106), the Kasbah Mosque (1235) with its beautiful minaret, the mosque of Sidi Youssef (1616), the Mosque Hamouda Pacha (seventeenth century ), the mosque of Dyers (1716) ... And the mosque-Tabaa Youssef Sahib, built in 1812 near Halfaouine, which has a rich decoration borrowed from the Italian style.
The souks are usually streets where shops of tradesmen and artisans of various trades are established. Clean trades are settled near the Grand Mosque. Less clean ones are below.
The Park Belvedere is interesting in different ways. It’s a beautiful space that extends over a hundred hectares. Located on a hill, it offers a multitude of perspectives to embrace the entire city and surrounding areas.
In 1912, Baron Rodolphe Erlanger fixed his residence there and began its work to protect the village ... The famous and beautiful Palace Erlanger, Ez-zahra Nejma, acquired by the Tunisian State, became a museum and a space for artistic refined, Tunisian and foreign companies. It is the center of Arab and Mediterranean Music. It retains its lavish furnishings and rich collections of manuscripts, paintings, carpets ... It is the museum of musical instruments in Tunisia.
At the foot of the cliff, is the marina of Sidi Bou Said, with cafes, restaurants and hotels. In the surrounding is Gammarth, a touristic area of high standing. In this city lies the famous Café Safsaf, set around an old public well where the water is still drawn by a waterwheel driven by a camel that runs endlessly. La Marsa, Sidi Bou Said, Carthage - is the elegant suburb of the capital-oriented recreation and culture, modern but still attached to a certain lifestyle.
Culture and lifestyle:
Near Tunis, rich with a prestigious past, facing the sea and its pleasures, the region of Cotes de Carthage. It is the capital par excellence of a certain lifestyle in Tunisia. Houses surrounded by cypresses and bougainvillea lined with dazzling white cubic. The baskets of vendors spread their scent of jasmine in every street corner. Moorish cafes are friendly and open unceremoniously on sun-drenched terraces, like the famous cafe in Sidi Bou Said mats or coffee Saf Saf in La Marsa, famous for its wells and camels which draws water using a waterwheel. Many restaurants offer a good resistance sunny kitchen with flavors from the sea, with its roots in an ancient culinary heritage.
Galleries, arts and crafts workshops, cultural clubs have taken up residence in this region is alive with many shows and festivals: Summer Festival of Carthage, October music, film festival, music concerts Arab- Andalusian.
