Neighbourhood
The Medina
Enclosed in its ninth-century ramparts, Sousse’s old town slopes gently from the kasbah down to the harbour. You will get lost, and that is the point.
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Sousse, two thousand years of Mediterranean
A UNESCO-listed medina, twelve kilometres of beaches and the light of the Tunisian Sahel. Welcome.
Not to be missed
The places that make Sousse, all within a twenty-minute walk of each other.
Heritage
The Ribat
The oldest and best-preserved fortress-monastery in North Africa. From the top of its watchtower, the whole medina and the sea.
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El Kobba Museum
Under a ribbed dome unique in Tunisia, a former caravanserai in the medina tells the story of everyday life and crafts in old Sousse.
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11th c. BC – 4th c.
Hadrumetum
A Phoenician trading post, then a thriving Roman city: the catacombs and the museum’s mosaics bear witness.
9th century
The Aghlabid city
The ribat (821), the Great Mosque (851) and the ramparts shape the medina you walk through today.
Today
Sousse
Tunisia’s third city, a UNESCO-listed medina since 1988, a seaside resort and a university town.
Coming up
Late July, every year
Aoussou Carnival
Every late July, floats, troupes and musicians parade along the seafront to celebrate the sea. A tradition said to go back to the Roman Neptunalia.
Read moreFind your way
The medina, the seafront and Port El Kantaoui on one map.