The taste of blue and white town of Tunis time travel (Photos)

For the Tunisian first impression from the movie "BritainThe patient ", when the contact of desert and love, sand become gentle embrace. Later in theSpainThe movie "Lucia and lover" and that a "below empty, white lighthouse behind floating on the sea" of the Jerba island and Lucia riding a motorcycle running when the blue Mediterranean, north, south of the Sahara desert, deduce wonderful balance.

The initial impression

Medina and Newcastle, interchange Arabia world and continental reading Tunisia this history book, can start from the capital, Tunis, it and the national name, is located in the Mediterranean west coast of tunisia. Tunisia isFranceEstablishment of colonial city and Arabia "Medina (Medina)" (Arabic "old town", refers to the traditional residential district Arabs) resulting from the fusion of city. Medina is the national treasure of Tunisia, 7 world cultural heritage in 4 and Medina are concerned, still retains the style of hundreds of years ago. Enter the old city, time travel officially began, I and my EOS 7D are too busy to attend to all.

On both sides of the road construction is not high, the majority of only two or three layers, with arched roof, the stone-paved bent road, wide place can accommodate two carriages parallel, narrow streets and alleys only two people across the. The old city retains the bustling Arabia market, most of the shops in the merchant is long in the residents, leisurely selling various goods, thousands of workshops and stores, blankets, scarves, perfume, arts and crafts, snacks...... Everywhere you can touch the history of Arabia.

Blue and white town amorous feelings

There are obviousEuropeThe new city is built in the period of the taste of French colonial rule after 1881, building more milky white, nestled in the date palm, palm trees and olive tree shade, green tram shuttle in the streets, even in winter also have flowers bloom in the park. If Medina is the historical and retained, so here is more interpretation of fusion style of Arabia and Europe, bourguiba Avenue in Metro (Avenue Habib Bourguiba) is named after the name of the first president of Tunisia, known as the "Champs Elysees of tunisia". The Bakhdo Museum (Bardo Museum) is the most important national art and History Museum, its ancientRomeDuring the mosaic collage art collection is most worth seeing. Rome period is the golden age of mosaic mosaic history, in addition to the worldItalyBesides, I'm afraid is hard to find much more better than Bach Museum of large, more complete, overall higher quality mosaic in Rome.

From the queen city to Rome Empire, the change of Carthage to deeper time go to have a look, two thousand or three thousand years of tunisia. We came to the site of the ancient city of Carthage (Carthage), is located 17 kilometers northeast of the city of Tunis, a peninsula on the Gulf of Tunis center, leaving only a path and the same road, easily defensible, it can control the Mediterranean transport hub, excellent geographical position to create a powerful carthage. Legend of the ninth Century BC living in Lebanon coast generation Phoenician tyre Kingdom civil strife, a princess named Alisa, trying to escape from his older sibling, with the entourage sailed west, see here is, decided to build the city here. But the local Berber prohibited outsiders over a piece of leather size of land. Clever Alisa leather cut into a filament, and then are connected end to end, in Bill SA mountain (Byrsa) around a piece of more than 300 hectares of land. In this way, the queen to establish the most powerful history of slavery in the country - carthage.

The more powerful but from always can feel the sound, for thousands of years aftersound around to broken walls, in the custom culture relics.