Tunisia Guide
Tunis
TUNIS is the centre of virtually everything that happens in the country. Tunis's Medina shelters monuments spanning one thousand years of Arab and Turkish endowment, and the French-built New Town, lying between the small hills of Belvedere Park to the north and Jellaz cemetery to the south, has a period value of its own.
Away from the centre, and easily reached by public transport, the Bardo Museum, housed in a former regent's palace, has one of the finest collections of Roman mosaics anywhere in the world, best visited before seeing the Roman sites elsewhere in the country.
Highlights
1 The Tunis Medina A maze of narrow lanes and busy souks, full of colour and noise, with an abundance of mosques, museums, palaces and monuments.
2 Cafe Chaouechin Gently mouldering, thick with chicha smoke, this Medina café is great for a coffee or mint tea as you watch the souk traders go about their business.
3 The Bardo Museum One of the world's finest collections of Roman mosaics, housed in a grand seventeenth-century palace.
4 The Dar el Jeld restaurant Superb Tunisian food in a beautifully restored mansion in the Medina.
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