The abandoned Christian Cemetery in Megrine
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Megrine is suburb south of Tunis, it used to be a french neighborhood during the colonisation era. since there were no more europeans living there for more than 70 years, the small cemetery in fir forest stayed abandoned for long decades. […]
Read MoreForgotten Shop signs
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Some commercial signs are old, very old, some belonging to still active shops other to shops that have closed or changed activities. Tracking them may be hard since they are usually hidden by new signs and decoration but that’s why […]
Read MoreThe oldest Year plaque on a building in Tunis.
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Many old buildings usually have a plaque with the year of their construction. Specially those built during the Art deco / Art nouveau french colonial era in the early 1900ies. Those kind of plaques are rarely used after that period […]
Read MoreThe hidden Sea Level Markers all around the Medina.
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While roaming around the old Medina of Tunis, you may look around and above you to admire the medieval islamic architecture but you rarely think of looking down, to your ankle level. All around the medina’s streets there is some […]
Read MoreThe Kitchy Art Deco buildings of Hafsiya
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- Category: architecture, medina, special places, streetphotography, StreetswithPersonality, urbex
El Hafsiya used to be the jewish hood part of the old medina of Tunis. in the 1930ies , during the french colonial era, the hood was completely razed and re-built with some typical french colonial art deco style. Nowadays, […]
Read MoreFACES OF THE OLD TUNIS – PART II: Lion Heads –
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up for some lion hunting in downtown? it seems like some architects have something with lion heads. but they seem even more harder to hunt than the human faces decorating downtown’s old buildings. . Share This:
Read MoreFaces of the Old Tunis – Part I –
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They are here, hidden in plain sight, watching us for more than a century, walking in downtown’s streets and no one seems to notice their presence. This is a first serie dedicated to those faces, heads, babies,.. that decorate some […]
Read MoreThe luxurious kitsch and overladen decorated “Ksar Ezzahraa” Palace in the Medina.
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This strange palace is located in the depth of the Medina of Tunis, in one of those small streets that you rarely passby by accident. It was closed and unknown for a long period then started with it’s new life […]
Read MoreAn old colonial style appartement turned into a StreetArt gallery.
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Usually tags and Street Art are on the walls in the streets and public locations right ? Not this time, this Tunisian artist has transformed his old colonial style appartement located in Tunis downtown, into a street art gallery with tags all […]
Read MoreInside the Abandoned Royal Mausoleum of Tourbet El Bey
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Tourbet El Bey is a Royal Mausoleum in the old Medina of Tunis, build to be the last resting place the Husainid dynasty the Ottoman rulers of Tunisia at that time. (more on the wikipedia page). As it’s name says, almost all […]
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