Best Traditional Tunisian Tunis Medina UNESCO 1979 Carthage UNESCO 1979 Sidi Bou Saïd Kairouan UNESCO 1988 El Jem UNESCO 1979 Dougga UNESCO 1997 and Tunisia Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Tunisia travel | Africa destinations Best Traditional Tunisian Tunis Medina UNESCO 1979 Carthage UNESCO 1979 Sidi Bou Saïd Kairouan UNESCO 1988 El Jem UNESCO 1979 Dougga UNESCO 1997 and Tunisia Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Tunisia covers 163,610 km² with roughly 12 million people, eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and a Mediterranean-to-Sahara stretch that fits inside a single one-week trip. Major destinations: Tunis Medina UNESCO 1979 with about 700 historic monuments, the Zitouna Mosque founded 732 AD as the oldest in North Africa, and the Bardo Museum holding the largest Roman mosaic collection in the world , Carthage UNESCO 1979 founded by the Phoenicians under Queen Dido in 814 BC, ruined by Rome at the close of the Punic Wars in 146 BC, then rebuilt with the Antonine Baths in 145 AD , Sidi Bou Saïd, the Andalusian blue-and-white cliff village above the Mediterranean dating to the 12th century , Kairouan UNESCO 1988 founded 670 AD by Uqba ibn Nafi as...