The best museums East Coast

The museum has superb mosaics, from neighboring sites: the first two versions of the Colosseum (two smaller amphitheaters) on the road to Sfax, still visible, have provided many mosaics presenting the shows of the circus. All the more interesting that one has the feeling to be able to compare the draft and the final version, rare fact in these architectural proportions. About thirty Roman villas, brought to light behind the site of the museum, brought testimonies of the prosperity of the merchants of the ancient Thysdrus.

The El Kobba museum is known for its zigzag pleated dome, unique in Tunisia. In the nineteenth century, this house housed the caravanserai of the French, before becoming an inn until the 1960s. Its frontage is decorated with niches and sumptuous arcades of times, this monument also has a central atrium. The architectural particularity of the place allows to maintain a pleasant temperature inside. Nowadays, the museum of Arts and Popular Traditions offers from its terrace a nice view on the souks and their maze of alleys.