Monuments to visit Timbuktu

This Sudan-Moroccan style building is the most beautiful traditional house in the city.

Visitors can see the houses where the great European explorers stayed. The main ones are René Caillié (the house where he stayed collapsed in 2002), Gordon Laing and Heinrich Barth.

This documentation centre bears the name of the most famous and prolific intellectual in Timbuktu. There are more than fifteen thousand manuscripts, the oldest of which dates back to 1241. These are carefully restored and archived before being consulted by scholarly researchers. Traités theological treaties, books of mathematics, astronomy, science, philosophical thinking, this library contains universal knowledge. These fragile documents shed light on the new history of the entire region.