This Old Colonial Building Downtown
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This Old Colonial Building is located in Rue Borj Bourguiba Downtown Tunis. Hard to pass by and not stopping admiring all those details for few minutes.. Share This:
Read MoreInside the bell’s tower of the Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul of Tunis
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The Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul is definitely one of the most iconic monuments of Tunis. Located in the main Habib Bourguiba Avenue, its construction began in 1893 and the church was opened at Christmas 1897 ( more ) […]
Read MoreThe Palace where Giuseppe Garibaldi hid in Tunis
The Gnecco Palazzo is located in Rue de la Commission at the ending of the old Medina of Tunis in the part of town where the europeans used to reside. The Palazzo belonged to Paulo Antonio Gnecco a rich Italian […]
Read MoreLa Grande Synagogue de Tunis
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The Synagogue of Tunis, completed in 1937, by the architect Victor Valensi. It is an architecturally interesting place with many colors and geometric shapes. Some historical anecdotes: – It was looted by the Axis forces when they came in 1942-43 […]
Read MoreThe cemetery of Borgel
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The Jewish cemetery of Borgel takes its name from a famous Rabbi who was the first to be buried there in 1898 (according to the epitaph). Several famous personalities are buried there, such as Habiba msika a famous Tunisian singer, […]
Read MoreThe 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 MoreThe pigeons of Zaytouna Mosque
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Read MoreThe last dyer of Souk Es Sabbaghine
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Souk Es Sabbaghine, as its name suggests, was the souk of the dyers, at the time they used large tanks to do dye clothes and tissues. One of these tanks still exists, even if it is condemned we still recognize quite […]
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 […]
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