TN · Curated travel guide
Amphitheatre of El Jem, Great Mosque of Kairouan, Jebel ech Chambi and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Tunisia and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 2 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Ancient Roman amphitheater in El Djem, Tunisia
An oval amphitheatre in today's El Djem, Tunisia, once Thysdrus, in the Roman province of Africa, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
Photo: Cimoi, CC BY-SA 3.0
Tunisian religious building and site of Islamic worship
Also called the Mosque of Uqba, a mosque in Kairouan, Tunisia, a UNESCO World Heritage town, and one of North Africa's biggest Islamic monuments.
Photo: weetoon66, CC BY-SA 2.0
Highest mountain in Tunisia (1,544 m)
Tunisia's highest mountain, a peak rising to 1,544 m (5,066 ft).
Photo: Tunesien2013, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
Orthodox synagogue on Djerba, Tunisia
Also called the Djerba Synagogue, an ancient Maghrebi Jewish congregation and synagogue in Hara Seghira, a Jewish village several kilometres southwest of Houmt El Souk, Djerba's chief town, in Tunisia. It appears to be the oldest synagogue on Earth.
Photo: Noomen9, CC BY-SA 4.0
Historical mosque in Tunis, Tunisia
The oldest mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, a major one in the middle of the city's historic medina.
Photo: Citizen59, CC BY-SA 3.0
Roman Catholic church located in Tunis, Tunisia
Honouring Saint Vincent de Paul, charity's patron saint: a church of the Roman Catholic faith in Tunis, Tunisia.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0
National park in Tunisia
A national park in the Grand Erg Oriental, in Tunisia's Sahara, covering 150,000 hectares, the country's second-biggest after Senghar-Jebbes National Park.
Photo: User: (WT-shared) Gallivant at wts wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Tunisia's legal deposit and copyright library, founded in 1885 as the French Library and later called the People's library.
Photo: Madhif, CC BY-SA 3.0
Officially the Republic of Tunisia, a North African country in the Maghreb, with Algeria to its west and southwest, Libya to its southeast, and the Mediterranean to its north and east. At sea it also borders Italy, through Sardinia and Sicily to the north, and Malta to the east.
Officially The Republic of Tunisia. Known locally as Tunes, تونس.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Amphitheatre of El Jem, Great Mosque of Kairouan, Jebel ech Chambi and Djerba and others. Amphitheatre of El Jem and Djerba are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Tunisia that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
2 of the 10 in this guide: Amphitheatre of El Jem and Djerba. That is not the full count for Tunisia, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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