Travel Guide Mohammedia

On the road from Zaghouan to Tunis, a small town that would have remained anonymous if Mohammed Bey had not taken it into his head to build there, in 1758, a gigantic palace that the inhabitants nicknamed the Tunisian Versailles. One of his descendants, Ahmed Bey, proceeded, a century later, to the construction of a second palace almost as imposing as the first, and which has the advantage of being, him, always upright. The original palace was practically dismantled and the ceramic tiles of the walls sold to tourists. However, the importance of the site can be appreciated from the dimensions of the walls and their arches alone. It is also called M'hamdia.