Cemeteries and memorials to visit Tunisia

This mausoleum is devoted to the husseinites sovereigns who succeeded from Ali Pasha II in the th century. Surmounted by domes, the rooms in this vast building have a rich Spanish-Italian decor. They house the tombs of the princes, but also their ministers and servants who they did not want to separate into death. One of the rooms is characterized by an egg-shaped dome. The tombs of men with a tombstone surmounted by a turban or tarbouch (rounded round cap) are recognised, while those of women have a stone on each side of a marble plate.

These 240 galleries, which run for 5 kilometers but can only be visited for about 40 meters, were used as tombs for some 25,000 Christians from the 2nd to the 4th century. There are four of them, three of which have been completely excavated, the catacombs of the Good Shepherd, Hermes and Severus. They are very well preserved when they were discovered, but they deteriorate rapidly once the earth is removed. The catacombs of Sousse are certainly less rich, but better preserved than those of Rome. The entrance is by the street of 25-July-57, near the station of hirings.