Tunis Hotels
Hotels in Tunis are often required by tourists who need accommodation in the city. Some want a hotel in the city or near the city. Some tourists want luxury hotels or a cheap hotels or a hotel that has good parking and has good views of the city. Some want to use the city as a base to explore the city. Some want a hotel that has good views of the coastline of the city.
Situated on a large Mediterranean gulf, (the Gulf of Tunis), behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette (Halq al Wadi), the city extends along the coastal plain and the hills that surround it. At the centre of more modern development (colonial era and post) lies the old medina. Beyond this section lie the suburbs of Carthage, La Marsa, and Sidi Bou Said.
The medina is found at the centre of the city: a dense agglomeration of alleys and covered passages, full of intense scents and colours, boisterous and active trade, a surfeit of goods on offer ranging from leather to plastic, tin to the finest filigree, tourist souvenirs to the works of tiny crafts-shops.
Just through the Sea Gate (also known as the Bab el Bahr and the Porte de France), begins the modern city, or Ville Nouvelle, transversed by the grand Avenue Bourguiba (considered by many to be the Tunisian Champs-Élysées), where the colonial-era buildings provide a clear contrast to smaller older structures. 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 of the outer city where one can see clearly the social challenges brought about by rapid modernization in Tunisia.
Tunis is located in north-eastern Tunisia on the Lake of Tunis, and is connected to the Mediterranean sea's Gulf of Tunis by a canal which terminates at the port of La Goulette / Halq al Wadi. The ancient city of Carthage is located just north of Tunis along the coastal part.
The medina of Tunis has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. The medina contains some 700 monuments, including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and fountains dating from the Almohad and the Hafsid periods. These ancient buildings include
the Great Mosque (including the Muslim University and library)
Aghlabid Ez-Zitouna
Mosque ("Mosque of the Olive") built in 723 by Obeid Allah Ibn-al-Habhab
to celebrate the new capital.
the Dar-al-Bey, or Bey's Palace, comprises architecture
and decoration from many different styles and periods and is believed to stand
on the remains of a Roman theatre as well as the tenth century palace of Ziadib-Allah
II al Aghlab.
Other landmarks
The Bardo Museum was originally a 13th century Hafsid palace, located in the (then)
suburbs of Tunis. It contains a major collection of Roman empires and other antiquities
of interest from Ancient Greece, Tunisia, and from the Arab period.
The ruins
of Carthage are nearby, along the coast to the northeast, the old capital of the
Carthaginian Empire, with many ancient ruins.
In the 2nd millennium BC a town, originally named Tunes, was founded by Berbers and also over time occupied by Numidians. In the 9th century BC, the city was taken over by Phoenicians from Carthage. The Berbers[specify] took control of Tunis in 395 BC but it was soon lost when Agathocles invaded Africa and established his headquarters there. When Agathocles left Africa, the Carthaginians took control of the city once again.
In 146 BC, the Romans destroyed Tunis (along with Carthage). However, the city was subsequently rebuilt under the rule of Augustus and became an important town under Roman control and the center of a booming agricultural industry.
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