139 places · MENA's 50 Best, 50 Best Discovery, Time Out and whatever's blowing up on TikTok · 5 routes · Medina, Carthage & Sidi Bou Saïd
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This interactive map of Tunis (Tunisia) brings together 139 hand-picked places: 43 attractions, 48 restaurants, 24 cafés and 24 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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المدينة العتيقة · Medina
Eight centuries of alleys, souks and palaces in the best-preserved Arab labyrinth in North Africa.
Tip: Enter via Bab El Bhar at 9am: souks are opening, tour groups haven't arrived and the light hits the vaults just right.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
Featured in: UNESCO
Show on mapجامع الزيتونة · Medina
The Olive Tree Mosque, the spiritual heart of Tunis since 698 AD and the exact centre of the Medina.
Tip: Non-Muslims can access the courtyard only (8am-noon, closed Friday). Best view is from the Panorama Café rooftop.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
Featured in: UNESCO
Show on mapالمتحف الوطني بباردو · Le Bardo
The world's greatest collection of Roman mosaics, inside a jaw-dropping beylical palace.
Tip: Reopened in 2023 after years shut: go Tue-Sat 9.30am-4.30pm and start with the Virgil room, upstairs to the left.
🚇 Le Bardo (Métro léger 4)
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Show on mapحمامات أنطونيوس · Carthage
The largest Roman baths in Africa, 15-metre columns planted right in front of the Mediterranean.
Tip: One Carthage ticket (12 DT) covers all 7 sites the same day: start here early and save Byrsa for sunset.
🚇 Carthage Hannibal (TGM)
Featured in: UNESCO
Show on mapتل بيرصة · Carthage
Carthage's acropolis: Punic ruins, a 360° view over the gulf and Dido's founding myth on one hill.
Tip: Climb to the lookout behind the cathedral: from there you see the Punic ports and Cap Bon on clear days.
🚇 Carthage Dermech (TGM)
Featured in: UNESCO
Show on mapالمتحف الوطني بقرطاج · Byrsa
Punic stelae, funerary masks and the priestess sarcophagus, with the whole gulf as a backdrop.
Tip: It sits atop Byrsa: do it last so you can walk down to Dermech and catch the TGM without rushing.
🚇 Carthage Dermech (TGM)
Featured in: UNESCO
Show on mapالموانئ البونية · Salammbô
The two circular lagoons where Carthage hid 220 warships from Rome. Naval archaeology at its purest.
Tip: Free and nearly empty: circle the lagoon on the east side at dusk, when flamingos drop into the lake.
🚇 Carthage Salammbô (TGM)
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Show on mapتوفة صلامبو · Salammbô
Carthage's most haunting Punic sanctuary: hundreds of votive stelae among fig trees and silence.
Tip: Take your phone torch down into the crypt: the lower stelae are the oldest, from the 8th century BC.
🚇 Carthage Salammbô (TGM)
Featured in: UNESCO
Show on mapالمسرح الروماني · Carthage
A restored 2nd-century theatre that still packs 7,000 seats every summer for the Carthage Festival.
Tip: Sit in the top row and clap: the original acoustics bounce the echo back from the stage. Local guide trick.
🚇 Carthage Hannibal (TGM)
Featured in: UNESCO
Show on mapصهاريج المالقة · Carthage
Twenty-four giant Roman vaults that watered half of Carthage. Almost nobody visits them.
Tip: They sit in a residential street with no signage: look for the green gate on rue Dag Hammarskjöld and walk in.
🚇 Carthage Hannibal (TGM)
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Show on mapالمدرج الروماني · Carthage
The arena where Saint Perpetua died, today an empty, photogenic stone oval among olive trees.
Tip: It's a 10-minute walk from the cisterns: do both together, they're on the same Carthage ticket.
🚇 Carthage Hannibal (TGM)
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Show on mapالأكروبوليوم · Byrsa
An 1890 Byzantine-Moorish cathedral crowning Byrsa hill, now a concert hall with killer acoustics.
Tip: Check the classical programme: October concerts are held in the afternoon, sun pouring through the stained glass.
🚇 Carthage Dermech (TGM)
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Show on mapسيدي بو سعيد · Sidi Bou Saïd
The blue-and-white clifftop village: bougainvillea, studded doors and the gulf right below you.
Tip: Arrive before 10am or after 5pm: in between it fills with coach tours. Rue Habib Thameur is the postcard street.
🚇 Sidi Bou Saïd (TGM)
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Show on mapالنجمة الزهراء · Sidi Bou Saïd
The palace of the baron who painted Sidi Bou Saïd blue: Arab courtyards, gardens and an Arab music museum.
Tip: It's below the village on the road to the sea: walk down from the square and taxi back. Closed Mondays.
🚇 Sidi Bou Saïd (TGM)
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Show on mapدار العنابي · Sidi Bou Saïd
An 18th-century mansion open to visitors: tiled courtyards, a panoramic terrace and mint tea.
Tip: Pay 5 DT and the top terrace gives you the best village shot without queueing at Café des Nattes.
🚇 Sidi Bou Saïd (TGM)
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Show on mapمرسى سيدي بو سعيد · Sidi Bou Saïd
The marina at the foot of the cliff: sailboats, fishermen and the best sunset on the gulf.
Tip: Take the 300 steps down from the village at 6pm in September: the sea is still 25°C and swimmable.
🚇 Sidi Bou Saïd (TGM)
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Show on mapحديقة البلفيدير · Belvédère
Tunis's 100 green hectares: eucalyptus, the Ottoman Koubba and a view over the lake from the top.
Tip: Walk up to the 17th-century Koubba on the east path: it's the only free lookout over Lake Tunis.
🚇 Palestine (Métro léger 2-4)
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Show on mapالحديقة اليابانية · El Menzah
A Japan-gifted zen garden inside the Belvédère: koi pond, red bridges and complete silence.
Tip: Open 9am-5pm and barely known: go on a weekday morning and the pond is all yours.
🚇 Palestine (Métro léger 2-4)
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Show on mapحديقة الحيوانات · Belvédère
Tunis's historic zoo inside the park, the classic Tunisian family weekend outing.
Tip: Token 1 DT entry. Combine it with the park and bring water: little shade in the big-cat section.
🚇 Palestine (Métro léger 2-4)
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Show on mapمدينة العلوم · El Menzah
Planetarium, hands-on exhibits and workshops: the best rainy-day plan with kids.
Tip: Planetarium sessions run on a fixed timetable: check the day's grid on arrival and book yours first.
🚇 Cité Sportive (Métro léger 2)
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Show on mapباب البحر · Medina
The arch separating the Medina from the colonial city: the exact border between two different Tunises.
Tip: It's the city's meeting point: step through and 40 metres later you're in the perfumers' souk.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapدار بن عبد الله · Medina
An 18th-century palace turned museum of popular arts and traditions: scenes of old Tunisian life.
Tip: The Carrara marble courtyard is the shot: go mid-morning, when the sun comes in at an angle.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapتربة الباي · Medina
The Husainid beys' mausoleum: green domes, Italian marble and tombs topped with carved turbans.
Tip: It's in the southern Medina, off the tourist loop: pair it with Dar Ben Abdallah, two blocks away.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapقصر خير الدين · Medina
Reformist Kheireddine's palace, now the city museum with models and photos of 1900s Tunis.
Tip: The upstairs room has a full model of the Medina: study it before you dive into the souks.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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Show on mapدار عثمان · Medina
A 16th-century Renaissance facade and a hidden orange-tree courtyard: the southern Medina's most photogenic palace.
Tip: Free entry in office hours: ask at the door and they'll let you into the courtyard no problem.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapدار حمودة باشا · Medina
A 17th-century beylical residence with a colonnaded gallery and hand-carved stucco, now a cultural space.
Tip: It adjoins the Hammouda Pacha mosque: look up at the octagonal minaret, the only one in Tunis.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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Show on mapحمام الحلفاوين · Halfaouine
The hammam Tunisian cinema made famous, in the Medina's most local, least touristy quarter.
Tip: Men in the morning, women in the afternoon: bring your own towel and 10 DT cash for the kessa scrub.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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Show on mapجامع صاحب الطابع · Halfaouine
Tunis's last great beylical mosque (1814), Carrara marble and a lace-like minaret.
Tip: It's on Halfaouine square, the one from the film: have tea at Café Errabt opposite and study the minaret.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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Show on mapباب سعدون · Bab Saadoun
A 19th-century triple gate stranded on a roundabout: the most accidentally photographed monument in Tunis.
Tip: Step off the Métro léger and it's right there: the best gate to start the Medina from the north.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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Show on mapباب جديد · Medina
An almost intact 1276 Almohad gate, horseshoe arch and the blacksmiths' quarter right behind it.
Tip: Walk through to the Souk des Forgerons: the clang of metal at 10am is the Medina's best soundtrack.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapكاتدرائية القديس منصور · Ville Nouvelle
An 1897 neo-Byzantine cathedral planted on Avenue Bourguiba, facing the Ibn Khaldoun statue.
Tip: Open 8-12 and 3-6: go in for the organ, then sit out on the avenue and watch the evening promenade.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapالمسرح البلدي · Ville Nouvelle
A 1902 art nouveau gem with a sculpted white plaster facade: the prettiest building on the avenue.
Tip: Lit up at night it's another thing: walk by after 8pm and shoot it from the opposite pavement.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapتمثال ابن خلدون · Ville Nouvelle
The father of sociology, Tunis-born, keeping watch over the liveliest avenue in North Africa.
Tip: It's the city's kilometre zero: five minutes on foot from here to Bab El Bhar and the Medina.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapحديقة الحبيب ثامر · Ville Nouvelle
A French garden with a pond and jacarandas downtown: the green break between the avenue and the Medina.
Tip: Take the east-side benches mid-afternoon: shade, wifi from the cafe next door and zero tourists.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapبرج كراكة · La Goulette
A 16th-century Ottoman fortress that guarded the lake entrance: stone, cannons and harbour air.
Tip: Five minutes from the TGM station: see it before sitting down for fish on Avenue Franklin Roosevelt.
🚇 La Goulette (TGM)
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Show on mapالمتحف البحري · Salammbô
A historic aquarium in a seafront fort: turtles, morays and the Tunisian Mediterranean explained.
Tip: Cheap and perfect with kids between the Tophet and the Punic ports: all three are 10 minutes apart on foot.
🚇 Carthage Salammbô (TGM)
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Show on mapالفيلات الرومانية · Carthage
A Roman residential quarter with mosaics in situ and the House of the Cryptoporticus facing the sea.
Tip: The horse mosaic is at the back on the right, barely signposted: ask the warden and he'll point it out.
🚇 Carthage Hannibal (TGM)
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Show on mapمرسى قمرت · Gammarth
The gulf's newest marina: yachts, a seafront promenade and restaurants with their feet in the water.
Tip: It packs out Friday and Saturday nights: for a quiet walk go at sunset on a weekday.
🚇 Taxi amarillo o Bolt desde La Marsa
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Show on mapشاطئ المرسى · La Marsa
Tunis's city beach: pale sand, a corniche to walk and a sea still warm in late September.
Tip: The TGM drops you literally on the sand. In September the water is around 25°C: the best swimming month.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Show on mapبرج شكلي · Lac de Tunis
A 16th-century Spanish fort on an island in Lake Tunis, ringed by flamingos and a bird reserve.
Tip: Only reachable by boat on an organised visit: otherwise watch the flamingos from the Lac 1 shore at dusk.
🚇 Taxi amarillo hasta el puerto del Lac 1
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Show on mapالمدرسة السليمانية · Medina
A 1754 Quranic school with a green-tiled courtyard, hidden metres from the booksellers' souk.
Tip: It's on Souk El Kachachine: the door is discreet, push and ask, they nearly always let you see the courtyard.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapزاوية سيدي محرز · Bab Souika
The shrine of Tunis's patron saint, white Ottoman domes that look transplanted from Istanbul.
Tip: View the domes from Bab Souika square: there are seven and the ensemble is unique in North Africa.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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Show on mapمركز فن الخط · Halfaouine
Contemporary Arabic calligraphy in a restored palace: workshops, shows and a courtyard of silence.
Tip: Ask about open workshops: sometimes a master will let you try the reed pen for a few dinars.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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Show on mapLa Marsa Corniche
La Marsa's fish institution since 1955 and the only Tunisian entry on the MENA's 50 Best 2026 list.
Tip: Book days ahead: order the catch of the day by weight and the mechouia salad to start, the best on the coast.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
Featured in: MENA's 50 Best
Show on mapRue Dar El Jeld · Medina
Tunisian fine dining in an 18th-century palace with a marble courtyard and a legendary yellow door.
Tip: Dinner only and booking required: order the lamb couscous tfaya and sit in the courtyard, not upstairs.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapRue Jamaa Ez Zitouna · Medina
Restaurant and cultural cafe in a 17th-century house, terrace facing the Zitouna minaret.
Tip: Head straight to the roof and start with brik à l'œuf: the best Medina view with actual good food.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
Featured in: TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice
Show on mapSouk El Attarine · Medina
A former perfumers' caravanserai reborn: market-driven Tunisian cooking under 18th-century vaults.
Tip: Lunch is a 25-30 DT set menu: order the merguez ojja and a pomegranate juice, it's the season.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapRue Pierre de Coubertin · Ville Nouvelle
A 1972 fish bistro where Tunis lawyers lunch: no menu, just whatever came in from the port.
Tip: Arrive before 1pm or there's no table. Let them bring the cold starters and order the grilled grouper.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapRue de la Kasbah · Medina
Genuinely homestyle Tunisian cooking in a converted dar: what a Medina family eats on a Sunday.
Tip: Lunch only: order Friday's fish couscous and the molokhia if it's on that day.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapRue des Tamis · Medina
A tiled courtyard, live musicians at weekends and a properly fiery prawn ojja.
Tip: Live malouf Thursdays and Fridays from 8pm: book a ground-floor table near the musicians.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapRue de la Kasbah · Medina
A Medina canteen where the lablabi arrives steaming and a full meal costs under 15 DT.
Tip: Order lablabi with egg and extra harissa: it's a morning or midday dish, never dinner.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapباب الفلة · Bab El Fella
A neighbourhood grill where Tunisians eat mechoui and merguez on tabouna bread, zero tourist tables.
Tip: Pick your meat at the counter, they weigh it and grill it there: get merguez plus lamb chops.
🚇 Bab Alioua (Métro léger 1-5)
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Show on mapBab Souika
Tunis's ojja temple: eggs, tomato, harissa and merguez spitting in a clay pan.
Tip: Open late and packed after the cinema: order ojja merguez with a cold beer and bread to mop up.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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Show on mapVille Nouvelle
Grandma-style Tunisian cooking named after a folk tale: kamounia, molokhia and tajine like at home.
Tip: The menu changes daily with the market: ask what tajine they have before ordering anything else.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapAvenue Habib Bourguiba · Ville Nouvelle
Art nouveau cafe-brasserie beside the theatre: tuna-and-harissa crêpes and the avenue's best people-watching.
Tip: Order the cheese, tuna and harissa crêpe: the local classic, under 10 DT on the terrace.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapRue de Rome · Ville Nouvelle
A long-running French bistro downtown, white tablecloths and a serious Tunisian wine list.
Tip: Try a Mornag red or a Magon: Tunisian wines are the trip's surprise and they pour them well here.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapRue Imam Sahnoun · Mutuelleville
The elegant French-leaning table where Tunis does business: impeccable produce, old-school service.
Tip: Weekday lunch has a set business menu: book, the small room fills with embassy crowds.
🚇 Taxi amarillo desde République
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Show on mapRue Salah Ben Mahmoud · El Menzah
Modern bistro with seriously good burgers and bowls: the El Menzah creative crowd's canteen.
Tip: Weekend brunch is the move: get there before noon or you're waiting half an hour at the door.
🚇 Taxi amarillo o Bolt desde República
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Show on mapRue El Hadi Chaker · Lafayette
A Turkish grill with live coals, a lahmacun station and mezze that never stops coming. Trending since 2024.
Tip: Order the adana kebab and künefe for dessert: share it, it feeds three. Best after 9pm.
🚇 Palestine (Métro léger 2-4)
Featured in: TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice
Show on mapAvenue Franklin Roosevelt · La Goulette
La Goulette's brik king: paper-thin pastry, a running yolk and tuna, fried to order for decades.
Tip: Order brik à l'œuf and eat it standing at the counter with lemon: 3 DT and the best bite on the coast.
🚇 La Goulette (TGM)
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Show on mapAvenue Franklin Roosevelt · La Goulette
Grilled fish and squid-ink pasta on La Goulette's Sicilian avenue. Hands-on, with white wine.
Tip: Pick your fish from the ice at the door and ask for it salt-baked: pay by weight, never fails.
🚇 La Goulette (TGM)
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Show on mapAvenue Franklin Roosevelt · La Goulette
A terrace over the promenade where La Goulette eats shellfish until midnight at weekends.
Tip: Friday and Saturday nights get a queue: book or arrive at 7.30pm, just as the terrace opens.
🚇 La Goulette (TGM)
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Show on mapAvenue Habib Bourguiba · La Goulette
An absolute La Goulette classic since 1959: complète de poisson, seafood spaghetti and zero trends.
Tip: Order the 'complète de poisson': soup, brik, fish and dessert at a fixed price. The local Sunday ritual.
🚇 La Goulette (TGM)
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Show on mapLa Goulette
A chef-driven seafront bistro that shook up La Goulette: local produce, French technique.
Tip: Short menu that changes weekly: go with the daily special and order the fig dessert.
🚇 La Goulette (TGM)
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Show on mapLa Goulette
A seafront dining room where La Goulette lunches on fish with no ceremony and local prices.
Tip: Lunch has a fixed menu with brik, fish and salad: the avenue's best value by far.
🚇 La Goulette (TGM)
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Show on mapByrsa · Carthage
A designer terrace atop Byrsa hill with the whole gulf in front: the best-view dinner in Tunis.
Tip: Book an outdoor table for 6.30pm in September: you eat with sunset over Sidi Bou Saïd behind you.
🚇 Carthage Dermech (TGM)
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Show on mapRue Hédi Zarrouk · Sidi Bou Saïd
Stepped terraces on the blue-and-white cliff, Mediterranean cooking and the sea 100 metres below.
Tip: Ask for the lower terrace, not the top one: it opens straight onto the gulf with no railing in the way.
🚇 Sidi Bou Saïd (TGM)
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Show on mapRue Hédi Zarrouk · Sidi Bou Saïd
A blue house with a Mediterranean balcony: wood-fired pizza and Tunisian mains for 40 years.
Tip: Arrive 20 minutes before sunset and ask for the corner table: the only one with a clean gulf view.
🚇 Sidi Bou Saïd (TGM)
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Show on mapMarina · Sidi Bou Saïd
Fresh fish at the foot of the cliff, with boats moored three metres from your table.
Tip: Take the steps down from the village and lunch here: the best excuse not to climb back up at noon.
🚇 Sidi Bou Saïd (TGM)
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Show on mapCarthage Dermech
Carthage's seafront seafood house, home to the gulf's best grilled lobster tail.
Tip: Five minutes on foot from the Thermes d'Antonin: the logical lunch after the ruins.
🚇 Carthage Dermech (TGM)
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Show on mapCarthage Dermech
Carthage's Italo-French table with house-made pasta and a terrace under the pines. Weekend booking essential.
Tip: Order the ravioli of the day: made in the morning and they run out. Save room for the tiramisu.
🚇 Carthage Dermech (TGM)
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Show on mapLa Marsa
Proper sushi in La Marsa: gulf fish cut with Japanese technique and a short omakase on Thursdays.
Tip: Sit at the bar and order the gulf sea-bream nigiri: you won't eat that anywhere else.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Show on mapLa Marsa
Couscous only, in ten versions: fish, lamb, octopus, vegetables. Undisguised Tunisian cooking.
Tip: The fish couscous is the one to order, and it sells out on Fridays: book or go at 12.30pm.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Show on mapRue du Saule · La Marsa
A restaurant built around a 17th-century Andalusian waterwheel: garden, willows and Sunday couscous.
Tip: The waterwheel courtyard is the reason to come: ask for an outdoor table and the midday lamb couscous.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Show on mapLa Marsa
A genuine Breton crêperie in La Marsa: buckwheat galettes, cider and a brunch that packs out every Saturday.
Tip: Saturday brunch runs 10am-2pm with no bookings: arrive at 10 sharp or wait outside.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Show on mapLa Marsa
Minimalist Japanese in La Marsa: ramen, gyoza and a counter where the cooking happens in front of you.
Tip: The tonkotsu ramen runs until the broth is gone: after 9pm there may be none left.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Show on mapLa Marsa
House-baked bagels, cream cheese and salmon in the heart of La Marsa: the neighbourhood's trending breakfast.
Tip: They go fast: get there before 11am for the salmon one. There are tables out on the pedestrian street.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Show on mapLa Marsa Corniche
La Marsa's Thai kitchen: pad thai, proper curries and adjustable heat. Rare and very good in Tunis.
Tip: Ask for the green curry 'Tunisian spicy' if you can take heat: they calibrate it to local palates and mean it.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Show on mapGammarth
A table on the Gammarth rocks: grilled fish, waves breaking below and postcard sunsets.
Tip: Book for 6.30pm in September: you eat as the sun drops behind the cape and the terrace is still warm.
🚇 Taxi amarillo o Bolt desde La Marsa
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Show on mapGammarth
A Gammarth fish classic almost in the water: white parasols, linen and sea.
Tip: Order the baked royal sea bream with potatoes and preserved lemon: the dish people come back for.
🚇 Taxi amarillo o Bolt desde La Marsa
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Show on mapGammarth
Fish and shellfish on the Gammarth coast, terrace hanging over the beach and old-school service.
Tip: Weekend lunch is the moment: garlic prawns and fish by weight, then walk down to the beach.
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A rooftop with cocktails, a DJ and gulf views: where Gammarth's weekend nights begin.
Tip: Go at sunset before the music gets loud: between 6 and 8pm the whole gulf turns orange.
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A beach club with loungers, Mediterranean food and late music: Tunisian summer stretched into September.
Tip: In September the pool is still open and the sea is 25°C: on weekdays there's no cover and plenty of space.
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Show on mapRue du Lac Turkana · Les Berges du Lac
A Lac 1 international bistro where corporate Tunis lunches: short menu, solid produce, fast service.
Tip: There's a three-course weekday lunch deal: the fastest way to eat well in the lake district.
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Show on mapRue du Lac Biwa · Les Berges du Lac
Fish, oven pizza and a palm-shaded terrace on Lac 1: the place the whole neighbourhood returns to.
Tip: The back terrace is quieter than the dining room: book there and order the salt-baked sea bass.
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Lebanese mezze, shawarma and flawless hummus on Lac 1: the embassy district's favourite Arab table.
Tip: Order mezze to share plus the mixed grill: with four people it's cheap and it's a feast.
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Show on mapRue de Marseille · Ville Nouvelle
A 1948 institution with walls papered in photos of every artist who ever came through.
Tip: Look at the back wall before sitting: Claudia Cardinale and half of Tunisian cinema history.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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A hidden Medina dar mixing Tunisian tradition with burgers: odd on paper, hugely popular in practice.
Tip: The top terrace looks onto the Zitouna minaret and hardly anyone goes up: ask for it when booking.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapRue Omar Ibn Abi Rabiaa · La Marsa
A converted house in La Marsa with market cooking, an inner garden and a menu that rotates with the season.
Tip: Ask for anything with pomegranate or new-harvest olive oil: September brings the harvest and they use it everywhere.
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Sourdough, stone-oven pizza in La Marsa: the pizzeria the neighbourhood became obsessed with.
Tip: Order the merguez-and-harissa pizza: the Tunisian version, absent from the translated menu.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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Basque pintxos and wine by the glass in La Marsa: standing bar, good noise and the neighbourhood's best happy hour.
Tip: Glass deals run 7-9pm: order the bluefin pintxo, it comes from the gulf and it's the bar's best.
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Show on mapمقهى العلية · Sidi Bou Saïd
Tunisia's most photographed cafe: a blue staircase, floor mats and pine-nut mint tea since 1900.
Tip: Take your shoes off and sit upstairs on the mats: order pine-nut mint tea, not coffee, that's the point.
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Stepped terraces clinging to the cliff, shisha and the blue gulf below: Tunisia's most famous sunset.
Tip: Arrive 45 minutes before sunset and go to the lowest terrace: the only one with no railing in the shot.
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Show on mapSouk El Trouk · Medina
A hidden rooftop above the Turks' souk with the best view of the Zitouna courtyard and minaret.
Tip: It's at 27 Souk Trok, unsigned: climb three flights and the tea costs 4 DT.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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A 17th-century Ottoman cafe with saints' tombs under the carpets: the Medina's oldest still standing.
Tip: Sit in the columned room and order Turkish coffee with orange blossom: served in copper for 300 years.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapSouk El Trouk · Medina
A cafe-terrace in the heart of the souks looking onto the vaults: the obligatory stop between purchases.
Tip: Order a 'direct' (Tunisian filter coffee) and a date makroudh: 5 DT and exactly the local snack.
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A specialty coffee shop tucked into the Medina: serious espresso and flat whites steps from the Zitouna.
Tip: One of the few Medina spots with real espresso: ask for filter to taste Tunisian beans roasted locally.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapAvenue Habib Bourguiba · Ville Nouvelle
The classic avenue terrace where Tunis reads the paper, argues football and drinks coffee, forever.
Tip: Order a 'capucin' (Tunisian cortado) and face the avenue: the best free show downtown.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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The specialty chain that took over Tunis: plant milks, iced lattes and wifi that actually works.
Tip: The perfect stop before catching the Métro léger: iced latte with almond milk and plug in your phone.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapRue du Lac Biwa · Les Berges du Lac
The lakeside branch: big terrace, weekend brunch and Lac 1's default meeting point.
Tip: Sunday brunch starts at 10am and fills up: get there early and ask for an outside table facing the lake.
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Specialty coffee in La Marsa with cold brew, house pastries and the neighbourhood's favourite brunch terrace.
Tip: Cold brew with tonic is the secret order: not on the menu but they'll make it if you ask by name.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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The historic Tunisian roaster turned smoke-free cafe: local beans roasted and poured in the same room.
Tip: Buy half a kilo of Tunisian beans to take home: ground on the spot and the best edible souvenir.
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A specialty bar with latte art, single-origin beans and La Marsa's youngest crowd at all hours.
Tip: Ask for the origin of the day: they rotate Ethiopian and Colombian beans and let you taste first.
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A garden cafe at the entrance to Sidi Bou Saïd, under bougainvillea, no village queues and the same light.
Tip: The alternative when Café des Nattes is mobbed: same mint tea, half the people.
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A modern coffee shop on the climb into Sidi Bou Saïd: own roast, small terrace and zero coach tourism.
Tip: Stop here off the TGM before climbing to the village: better coffee at half the price.
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A La Marsa neighbourhood cafe: newspaper breakfasts and unhurried lunches under the awnings.
Tip: Order the full Tunisian breakfast: bsissa, new olive oil, tabouna bread and coffee. Under 12 DT.
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Nordic-looking specialty in La Marsa: handmade ceramics, V60 pour-overs and pastry of the day.
Tip: Order the V60 with the Ethiopian bean and the cinnamon roll: the combo people cross La Marsa for.
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A bright cafe metres from La Marsa's central market: good espresso and the best people-watching around.
Tip: Pair it with the central market: buy figs and pomegranate in the morning, then sit here for coffee.
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Tunisia's flagship pastry house: makroudh, baklawa, kaak warka and windows impossible to walk past.
Tip: Get a 250 g mixed box with makroudh and kaak warka: the Tunisian gift that never misses.
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Handmade Tunisian sweets on the climb to the blue village: pistachio baklawa and fresh samsa.
Tip: Buy samsa (almond-and-honey triangles) to eat at the lookout: 1 DT each and addictive.
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A cult artisan gelateria in La Marsa: fig, pomegranate and jasmine sorbets made with seasonal fruit.
Tip: In September the new fig and pomegranate flavours are in: get both in the same cone.
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A La Goulette Italian gelateria, pure Sicilian heritage: pistachio, stracciatella and giant cones.
Tip: The obligatory stop after fish on the avenue: pistachio is the one to order.
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A village cafe on Sidi Bou Saïd's square where you eat bambalouni fresh from the fryer, dusted in sugar.
Tip: Bambalouni is eaten standing and instantly, never cold: 1.5 DT and the village's edible symbol.
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A modern coffee shop two blocks from the Bardo: the decent coffee you need after three hours of mosaics.
Tip: It's on the way to the Métro léger stop: museum, coffee, train back downtown in 20 minutes.
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A Lac 2 cafe-bistro with a terrace, a long brunch and Tunis's creative scene sitting inside.
Tip: Weekend brunch runs till 3pm: order the eggs benedict with salmon and a cold brew.
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Show on mapسوق العطارين · Medina
The perfumers' souk: amber vials, orange-blossom water and jasmine since the 13th century, under vaults.
Tip: Ask them to blend a custom scent in a glass vial: around 20 DT and alcohol-free.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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The souk where red felt chechias are still handmade, a 600-year-old Tunisian craft.
Tip: Ask to see the felt brushing in the back workshop: the step that makes the Tunisian chechia unique.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapسوق الترك · Medina
The Turks' souk: tailors, gold embroidery and the staircases that lead to the rooftop cafes.
Tip: Gold-thread embroidery is made to order in 48 hours: get a quote on your first day in town.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapسوق الصاغة · Medina
The goldsmiths' souk: Berber silver, Hands of Fatima and Tunisian filigree sold by weight.
Tip: Silver is sold by weight plus craftsmanship: ask to see the Tunisian state hallmark before paying.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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The musicians' souk: ouds, darbukas and bendirs made in workshops still open to the street.
Tip: Ask them to play the oud before you buy: the luthiers love to and the difference is obvious.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapسوق سيدي بومنديل · Medina
The Medina's cheapest, most chaotic souk: fabric, spices, electronics and Olympic-level haggling.
Tip: Start at a third of the asking price and walk: haggling here is compulsory, not optional.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapالحفصية · Medina
Tunisia's biggest second-hand clothing market: mountains of European fripe and vintage finds for 5 dinars.
Tip: New stock lands on Mondays and that's the day to go: arrive early with small cash.
🚇 Bab Saadoun (Métro léger 3-4-6)
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The 1891 central market: gulf fish, mountains of harissa, new olives and seasonal pomegranates.
Tip: Go before 11am and enter via the fish hall: September brings new olives and pomegranate.
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Show on mapRue Sidi Ben Arous · Medina
Half shop, half museum: antiques, ceramics and Tunisian objects in a 15th-century house.
Tip: Go up to the first floor even if you don't buy: the upstairs room is a free open museum.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Nabeul ceramics, kilim rugs and hammered copper in one of the souks' most reliable shops.
Tip: Ask for genuine Nabeul ceramics, not the industrial kind: you can tell by the unglazed base.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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Show on mapRue d'Alger · Ville Nouvelle
Tunis's best-loved bookshop: French and Arabic stock, a cafe at the back and near-weekly launches.
Tip: Look for the French-language Tunisia section: the country's best photography and archaeology selection.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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Show on mapAvenue Habib Bourguiba · Ville Nouvelle
A 1933 art deco shopping arcade on the avenue: a covered passage of shops, cafes and skylight.
Tip: Walk in even if you don't shop: the glass dome and iron staircase are among downtown's finest.
🚇 République (Métro léger 3-4)
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The country's biggest mall: international brands, a food court, a cinema and real air conditioning.
Tip: The top floor has lake-view terraces: go up at sunset even if you're not eating there.
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Show on mapAvenue Habib Bourguiba · La Marsa
La Marsa's shopping centre, a block from the beach: fashion, a cinema and the terrace where coffee happens.
Tip: Combine it with the beach: the TGM stops 200 metres away and the cinema screens films in original version.
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Show on mapRue El Moez · El Menzah
The Tunisian label that put darija on cotton tees: local-humour basics, made in Tunisia.
Tip: The tees with Tunisian dialect slogans are the souvenir people get: ask for a translation.
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Show on mapRue Salem Bouhajeb · Mutuelleville
A concept store of Tunisian designers: fashion, homeware and contemporary art in one curated space.
Tip: The best place for current Tunisian design instead of tourist crafts: check the ceramics.
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Sadika Keskes's blown-glass workshop: unique handmade pieces and a furnace you can visit in Gammarth.
Tip: Ask to see the workshop: if they're blowing you can watch, and seconds sell at half price.
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La Marsa's bookshop and art space: francophone stock, exhibitions and Tunis's most literary crowd.
Tip: Check the exhibitions board on your way in: there's nearly always a free Tunisian photography show.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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A neighbourhood market with the best of the gulf: fish, figs, pomegranates and new olives in September.
Tip: Go between 8 and 11am: September brings late-harvest figs and pomegranate at giveaway prices.
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La Goulette's fish market: what's landed in the morning is eaten at noon 50 metres away.
Tip: Many restaurants on the avenue will cook fish you buy here: ask what they charge to grill it.
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A La Marsa spice shop with artisan harissa, tabil, ras el hanout and loose saffron in glass jars.
Tip: Take tube harissa and ground tabil: under 300 g, cabin-legal and less than 10 DT.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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An art gallery in the blue village with contemporary Tunisian painting and work by its namesake master.
Tip: Free entry and hardly anyone goes in: the best air-conditioned break on the main street.
🚇 Sidi Bou Saïd (TGM)
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A hammered-copper workshop-shop: trays, teapots and lanterns handmade Medina-style, no haggling.
Tip: Prices are fixed and fair: if you want good copper without a half-hour negotiation, this is it.
🚇 La Marsa Plage (TGM)
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A Medina confectioner where makroudh, zlabia and bouza are sold by weight, the way Tunisians buy them.
Tip: Ask for 200 g of freshly made date makroudh: under 5 DT and Tunisia's national sweet.
🚇 Place de Barcelone (Métro léger 1-2-4-5)
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