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Tunis Travel Guide

As the capital city of the country Tunis is the center of Tunisian commercial activity, as well as focus of political and administrative life in the country. The expansion of the Tunisian economy in the last decades is reflected in the booming development.

About Tunis

Tunis covers an area of 82.1 sq. miles (212.6 sq. Km) and is estimated to have a population of 738,000 people being he capital of the Tunisian Republic and also the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city and an important touristical destination.

Attractions

Southeast of Dar el Bey in Tunis is the Sidi Youssef Mosque (1616), with a slender octagonal (Hanafite) minaret faced with green tiles. Many of the 48 columns in the prayer hall have antique capitals. Over the mihrab is an octagonal dome. Associated with the mosque are the pyramid-roofed mausoleum of its founder, the Hafsid Bey Sidi Youssef, and a medersa (Koranic school) built in 1622. At the end of Rue Sidi B. Ziad stands the Aziza Othman Hospital, the city’s largest women’s hospital, named after the daughter of Bey Othman, who is still revered.

El Ksar Mosque

Dyers’ Mosque

Medina of Tunis

Site of Carthage



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