Tunisia's Finest Intact Arab Medina, Kerkennah Island Fishing & El Jem Roman Africa
📍 Sfax, Tunisia📅 3-day itinerary
Tunisia's working economic capital — a merchant city whose 9th-century Aghlabid ramparts enclose the most intact medina in Tunisia, where 30,000 people still live within the medieval walls and the souk arrangement by trade has not fundamentally changed since the Fatimid period, 25 km offshore from an archipelago where octopus is caught by leaving clay pots on the sea floor at night and the charfia palm-frond fish traps cover the shallows like an underwater fence.
The 17th-Century Aristocratic Townhouse Museum Where Sfaxian Women's Ceremonial Dress and the Double-Courtyard Social Architecture of Arab Urban Life Are Preserved & The 849 AD Aghlabid Minaret That Became the Template for Every North African Minaret That Followed
The Uniquely Kerkennah Fish Trap Using Woven Palm Frond Fences Driven Into the Gulf of Gabès Sea Floor — A Technique Dating from the Phoenician Period That Still Catches More Sea Bass Than Any Modern Method on the Island & The Shallowest Warmest Sea in the Mediterranean Where Water Stays Knee-Deep Two Hundred Metres from Shore
The Third-Largest Roman Amphitheatre Ever Built and Still Standing to Its Original External Ring of Arches Intact After 1,785 Years in a Tunisian Town of 50,000 & The Mosaic Floor Collection from the Olive Oil Millionaire Villas That Financed the Amphitheatre's Construction