Attraction & Activities

Known for its cobbled streets and blue-and-white houses, Sidi Bou Said is a charming town on a promontory overlooking the Mediterranean, with al fresco cafes, Tunisian eateries, and small art galleries. The international fame of the village was acquired in 1912 thanks to an English baron who built a magnificent palace (a must see). Sidi Bou Said became then a place of rest and inspiration to many artists, musicians and writers such as Chateaubriand, Gustave Flaubert, Alphonse de Lamartine, André Gide, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, etc.

The Bardo national museum is the second museum of the African continent after the Egyptian Museum of Cairo by richness of its collections.
It traces the history of Tunisia over several millennia and across several civilizations through a wide variety of archaeological pieces.
The museum houses one of the largest collections of Roman mosaics in the world, such as the Virgil Mosaic, a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa.
From the Roman era, the museum also contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the deities and the Roman emperors found on different sites including those of Carthage.