General Description:

Ideal for a 2/3/4 night break Tunis, capital city of Tunisia, is a place where old and new live in perfect harmony.

Domes and minarets, broad boulevards lined with cafes and flower stalls and elegant shops mix together in this cosmopolitan city.

In the old town with its seven mosques, old palaces, artistic and cultural centres you will find life unchanged and where traders in the souks go about their business as they have done over hundreds of years.

You can barter for silver filigree jewellery, hand-woven carpets, perfume, spices and leather goods.

What to see:

The minaret of Zitouna, the Great Mosque is a 19th century addition - open to tourists every morning except Friday. Museum of Arts and Traditions is a splendid 18th century palace with a marble court which houses intricate costumes and accessories of upper class life in 19th century Tunis.

Hammouda Pasha Mosque - a delicately decorated octagonal minaret. Bardo Museum located in a 19th century palace on the west side of the city, is home to one of the finest collections of Roman mosaics to be seen anywhere in the world.

In the Avenue Habib Bourguiba the elegant buildings have recently been restored to their former glory and here you will find a shaded boulevard containing flower stalls, modern shops, cafés, shoe-shine men and newspaper sellers.

Where to go:

You should . Built by Queen Dido and devastated by the Romans, the ruins tell their own story of love, courage and anguish.

Sidi Bou Said is a picture-postcard village of sparkling white and blue houses perched on a headland overlooking the Mediterranean.

Golf de Carthage 18-hole golf course, one of the oldest in Africa built in 1927 with fairways surrounded by 100 year old eucalyptus trees.