Lost in Tunis

Eglise Notre Dame des Rosaire de Tunis

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 4 April 2018
Category: abandoned, architecture, Holy places, medina, ruins, special places, urbex

Located in “Rue de l’Ecole”, in the southern entrance of the Medina near Bab el Jazira / Bab Jdid, and not far from Rue Tourbet el Bey. Legend says that this building was originally the home of a Turkish […]

Romdhane Bey Palace / Dar Jouini

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 3 April 2018
Category: abandoned, architecture, medina, special places, urbex

Built in 1696 by Romdhane Bey, who spent less than 2 years in it before being beheaded. legend says that the head of Romdhane Bey rolled in this very house court. Then the palace passes through several owners, the […]

Eglise Sainte Croix in the Medina of Tunis.

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 28 March 2018
Category: abandoned, architecture, Holy places, medina, Rooftops, urbex

Built in 1662 by foreign Christians in the “europeans” part of the Medina of Tunis, This church is one of the oldest inside the medina, it even gave it’s name for a while to one of the most emblematic streets […]

This Old Colonial Building Downtown

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 28 March 2018
Category: architecture, streetphotography

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:

Inside the bell’s tower of the Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul of Tunis

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 3 January 2018
Category: architecture, Holy places, Rooftops, special places

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 ) […]

The Palace where Giuseppe Garibaldi hid in Tunis

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 28 November 2017
Category: abandoned, architecture, medina, ruins, urbex

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 […]

La Grande Synagogue de Tunis

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 28 November 2017
Category: architecture, Holy places, urbex

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 […]

The cemetery of Borgel

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 28 November 2017
Category: Cemetery, Holy places, urbex

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, […]

The abandoned Christian Cemetery in Megrine

Post By: Dismalden
Date: 27 November 2017
Category: abandoned, Cemetery, Holy places, urbex

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. […]