Archaeological Tourism For Groups In Monastir Tunisia

Archaeological Museum Has Monastir

Monastir is the leader of the governorate of the same name, the city is beautifully situated at the southern end of the Golf of Hammamet.

His past was mainly related to the defense under the Romans it was already a strategic point during the African campaign of Caesar in the 8th century, it became a bastion against the Christian invasions. Later, his ribat (fortified monastery), would become a place to visit by Muslims aim to learn their religion.

Ribat prepare its imposing walls; ribat the first was built around 796, and it was revised several times thereafter, he was surrounded by a powerful speaker. Inside a Museum of Islamic Art in a former chapel, there will manuscripts, glassware Fatimid X, and XI centuries, pottery, Persian miniatures, woodwork, gold coins and money, Coptic textiles, etc.

Archaeological sites of Punic and Roman are not many but with Monastir and archaeological heritage and cultural Arab Islamic very interesting.

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