Attraction
1. Bardo National Museum
Tunisia's oldest and most important museum, set in a former beylical palace and home to one of the world's great collections of Roman mosaics.
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2. Medina of Tunis
The walled old city of Tunis, founded in 698 around the Zitouna Mosque and listed by UNESCO, with around 700 monuments, souks and palaces.
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3. Zitouna Mosque
The great mosque at the heart of the Tunis medina, founded around 698 and rebuilt in the ninth century, once one of the Islamic world's leading centres of learning.
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4. Antonine Baths of Carthage
The seafront ruins of the largest Roman baths in Africa, built between 145 and 162 AD and the most dramatic surviving monument of ancient Carthage.
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5. Sidi Bou Said
A whitewashed clifftop village above the Gulf of Tunis, famous for its blue doors, old cafés and links with painters and writers.
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6. Tourbet el Bey
The eighteenth-century mausoleum of the Husainid beys in the southern medina, the largest funerary monument in Tunis, reopened in 2023 after restoration.
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7. Dar Ben Abdallah
An eighteenth-century medina palace near Tourbet el Bey that now houses a museum of traditional family and public life in old Tunis.
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8. Cathedral of St Vincent de Paul
Tunisia's only active Catholic cathedral, completed in 1897 on Place de l'Indépendance with a striking mix of Moorish, Gothic and Byzantine styles.
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9. Musée Romain et Paléochrétien de Carthage
A small museum at Carthage Dermech devoted to late Roman and early Christian Carthage, reopened in December 2025 with new interactive displays.
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