Kerkouane Museum
Tunisia /
Nabul /
Hhammam-al-Agzaz /
World
/ Tunisia
/ Nabul
/ Hhammam-al-Agzaz
, 6 km from center (حمام الأغزاز)
building, park, interesting place
Museum, ticket office, entrance area, parking, and access road to the ruins of an ancient walled town.
Arabic: كركوان
Also spelled Kerkouane, from French.
The ruins are the remains of a town, apparently destroyed by a tsunami, at an unknown point of time before the first Punic wars. By locals it is considered to have been a Punic town, and recently dubbed "Kerkwèn", after the Maghrebi Arabic common name of the area in its surroundings. The site including the city centre ruins and its Necropolis, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was a looting site until deemed empty, and in the final years of the Ben Ali regime, there was installed a road access, a parking lot, and a ticket office and a small museum.
NOTE: It is perhaps the only archaeological site in Tunisia where you will NOT be hawked to buy small-sized artefacts, as there may be nothing left to sell from the site.
Arabic: كركوان
Also spelled Kerkouane, from French.
The ruins are the remains of a town, apparently destroyed by a tsunami, at an unknown point of time before the first Punic wars. By locals it is considered to have been a Punic town, and recently dubbed "Kerkwèn", after the Maghrebi Arabic common name of the area in its surroundings. The site including the city centre ruins and its Necropolis, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was a looting site until deemed empty, and in the final years of the Ben Ali regime, there was installed a road access, a parking lot, and a ticket office and a small museum.
NOTE: It is perhaps the only archaeological site in Tunisia where you will NOT be hawked to buy small-sized artefacts, as there may be nothing left to sell from the site.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 36°56'27"N 11°5'34"E
- Kerkwèn 0.8 km
- Résidence Riadh Soukra 74 km
- Residence el Aaliya 1 82 km
- SONEDE 84 km
- Centre National d'Informatique - CNI - المركز الوطني للإعلاميّة 84 km
- المبيت الجامعي الياسمين 86 km
- Students Halls of Residence - Bardo2 86 km
- Students Halls of Residence - Bardo1 86 km
- French Supermarkt (Mall) Géant Tunis 87 km
- military barracks Sidi Thebet 91 km
- ezzahra 4.3 km
- Dar Allouch 4.7 km
- hammem jebli 5.6 km
- hammem jebli 5.8 km
- AZMOUR 7.8 km
- ابوبكر الطاهر أبوسهمين 10 km
- Melloul 13 km
- garsouline 15 km
- Sidi Daoud Wind farm 18 km
- Gulf of Tunis 43 km