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 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 […]
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 MoreInside the Russian Orthodox Church of Tunis.
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The Russian Orthodox church in Tunis also called ‘Church of the Resurrection’ was built by the Russian community of Tunis in October 1953 by Russian architect Michel Kozmin. (ref wikipedia) The building is a copy of the Church of the Intercession on the […]
Read MoreThe Kitchy Art Deco buildings of Hafsiya
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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 MoreShoefiti or shoe tossing
Is it Street ART installation? Gangs Territory marking? or just some bored people? When looking up while walking in some streets you can see some shoes hanging on the electric cables. This shoe tossing or Shoefiti (Shoes + graffiti) is undeniably a form […]
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:
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