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Sousse or Soussa (Arabic: سوسة, IPA:) is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis , the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014) . Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet , which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea .
The museum is housed in the Kasbah of Sousse's Medina, which was founded in the 11th century AD. [1] It was established in 1951. The museum reopened its doors to the public in 2012, after the collections were rearranged and the edifice was renovated.
As a coastal heritage site, Medina of Sousse is vulnerable to sea level rise.In 2022, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report included it in the list of African cultural sites which would be threatened by flooding and coastal erosion by the end of the century, but only if climate change followed RCP 8.5, which is the scenario of high and continually increasing greenhouse gas emissions associated with ...
Tourism in Tunisia is a major industry, attracting around 9.4 million arrivals annually from the year 2016 to 2020, making it one of the most visited countries in Africa. Among Tunisia's tourist attractions are its cosmopolitan capital city of Tunis , the ancient ruins of Carthage , the Muslim and Jewish quarters of Djerba , and coastal resorts ...
Sousse Governorate (Arabic: ولاية سوسة Wilāyat Sūsah pronounced; French: Gouvernorat de Sousse) is one of the twenty-four governorates (provinces) of Tunisia.It is beside the eastern coast of Tunisia in the north-east of the country and covers an area of 2,621 km 2 and has a population of 674,971 (2014 census). [2]
Enfidha (or Dar-el-Bey, Arabic: دار البي Enfīđa / Dar el bāy ⓘ) is a town in north-eastern Tunisia with a population of approximately 10,000. It is visited by tourists on their way to Takrouna. It lies on the railway between Tunis and Sousse, approximately 45 km northeast of Sousse and a few kilometres inland from the Gulf of Hammamet.
Hergla (Arabic: هرقلة) is a small cliff-top town in north-eastern Tunisia at the Gulf of Hammamet. White houses of Hergla with often blue window and door surroundings are built in the classic style characteristic for Tunisia. Sousse is about 24 km south-east of Hergla.
Sousse Room. Virgile Room. d’Althiburos Room. The Bardo National Museum building was originally a 15th-century Hafsid palace, located in the suburbs of Tunis. The Bardo is one of the most important museums of the Mediterranean basin, and the second largest on the African continent after the Egyptian Museum.