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Port El Kantaoui Marina. Port El Kantaoui (Arabic: مرسى القنطاوي) is a tourist complex 10 kilometres north of Sousse city in central Tunisia.It was built in 1979 specifically as a tourist center, [1] around a large artificial harbour that provides mooring with 340 berths for luxury yachts, hosting sporting activities from water skiing to paragliding, and several golf courses.
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.
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 .
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 ...
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.
In recent years, Tunisia has expanded its tourism industry to new markets such as Russia and China. [4] From 2003 to 2004, it saw a resurgence in tourist numbers, and in 2007, arrivals increased by 3% compared to 2006.. [4] Tourism in Tunisia suffered severe blows following the Bardo National Museum attack and the Sousse attack in 2015. [5]
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.
The Ribat of Sousse was founded during the 8th century, [2] or late 8th century, [3] [4] during the tenure of the Abbasid governor Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi (d. 787). [3] There is also evidence that the site of the ribat was formerly occupied in Classical antiquity, reflecting the fact that many ribats in Tunisia were built over the remains of more ancient fortifications.