Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9 century and founded in 670. Kairouan bears unique witness to the first centuries of this civilisation and its architectural and urban development. Despite the transfer of the political capital to Tunis in the 12 centuries, Kairouan remained the Maghreb principal holy city. Kairouan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Matmata has one of Tunisia’s most unusual village landscapes. It’s a place of underground homes burrowed into the rock. At this place the Berber people dig their homes out of the ground for more than 1000 years. There are more than 100 underground houses, there is even a subterranean hotel now. The houses are built around artificial craters, 5 to 10 m deep, with doors and windows in the steep walls towards the crater. Those craters look like a patio or a Roman atrium, and the lower part of the walls is often painted white. Sometimes several of those craters are connected by a labyrinth of tunnels.

The remnants of ancient Carthage – fabled wealthy seafaring city of the Phoenicians – lie scattered across the Bay of Tunis

Tunis is the capital and the largest city of Tunisia since independence in 1956. Situated on a large Mediterranean sea gulf, behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette, the city extends along the coastal plain and the hills that surround it. As the capital city of the country, Tunis is the focus of Tunisian political and administrative life, it is also the centre of the country’s commercial and cultural activities.

Zaghouan is located below the northern slope of a Djebel

Sousse is one of the older cities in Tunisia. Located on the coast, it has good beaches and a clear turquoise sea.

Sidi Bou Said is town in northern Tunisia, with its distinctive blue-and-white color scheme

El Jem was formerly the Roman town of Thysdrus, one of the most important towns in North Africa after Carthage