A clifftop village of white houses with blue doors above the Gulf of Tunis, with the Café des Délices. Nearby, the ruins of Carthage, the great Phoenician and Roman city, include the Antonine Baths by the sea.
Take the TGM train from Tunis.
The Bardo has one of the world's finest collections of Roman mosaics, in a former palace.
A holy city, a UNESCO site, with the Great Mosque of Uqba founded in 670, one of the oldest in Africa, and the Aghlabid Basins.
One of the largest Roman amphitheatres in the world, built around 238 AD, remarkably intact, with space for 35,000 spectators, a UNESCO site.
An island with beaches, whitewashed villages, the El Ghriba synagogue, one of the oldest in Africa, and Djerbahood, a village covered in street art.
Troglodyte Berber homes dug into the ground around courtyards; one, the Hotel Sidi Driss, was Luke Skywalker's home in Star Wars.
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