Zaghouan | Water Temple | Barrage Sidi Medien | Exploring Tunisia
Time to get back to exploring Tunisia!!! This trip I go to Zaghouan where we visit the Water temple or Temple De Eaux in French. An ancient Roman Temple based at the aquifer that sent water 134km away to Carthage using Aqueducts.
We then went to barrage/dam Sidi Medien, we grilled our lunch on the lake side and then hiked all the way around it.
A great day with great people!
Thanks to Habla Event for hosting this rondonee:
More information:
Zaghouan:
The town is located around 100 km due south of Tunis and around 50 km inland (west) from the Gulf of Hammamet and has an estimated population of around 20,837 (2014). It is the capital of the Zaghouan Governorate.
Zaghouan Aqueduct:
The Zaghouan Aqueduct or Aqueduct of Carthage is an ancient Roman aqueduct, which supplied the North African city of Carthage with water. From its source in Zaghouan it flows a total of 132 km, making it amongst the longest aqueducts in the Roman Empire.
Sidi Medien:
Sidi Medien is a village in Zaghouan Governorate, Tunisia.
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Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia
Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia
The Bardo National Museum is a museum of Tunis, Tunisia, located in the suburbs of Le Bardo.
It is one of the most important museums in the Mediterranean region and the second museum of the African continent after the Egyptian Museum of Cairo by richness of its collections. It traces the history of Tunisia over several millennia and across several civilizations through a wide variety of archaeological pieces.
Housed in an old beylical palace since 1888, it offers a prestigious and magnificent setting for the exhibition of many major works discovered since the beginning of archaeological research in the country. Originally called Alaoui Museum , named after the reigning bey at the time, it takes its current name of Bardo Museum after the independence of the country even if the denomination is attested before that date.
The museum houses one of the finest and largest collections of Roman mosaics in the world, thanks to the excavations at the beginning of 20th century in various archaeological sites in the country including Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga and Utica. Some of the displayed works have no equivalent, such as the Virgil Mosaic. Generally, the mosaics of Bardo represent a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa. From the Roman era, the museum also contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the deities and the Roman emperors found on different sites including those of Carthage and Thuburbo Majus.
The museum also has some rich pieces discovered during the excavations of Libyco-Punic sites including mainly Carthage, although the National Museum of Carthage has the vocation to be the museum of this major archaeological site. The essential pieces of this department are grimacing masks, terracotta statues and stelae of major interest for Semitic epigraphy, the stele of the priest and the child being the most famous. The museum also houses Greek works discovered especially in the excavations of the shipwreck of Mahdia, whose emblematic piece remains the bust of Aphrodite in marble, gnawed by the sea and yet still of a moving beauty.
The Islamic Department contains, in addition to famous works such as the Blue Qur'an of Kairouan, a collection of ceramics from the Maghreb and Anatolia.
In order to increase the reception capacity and optimize the presentation of the collections, the museum is the subject of a vast operation which was to be completed initially in 2011 but was not finished until 2012 due to the Tunisian Revolution. The work concerns the increase of the exhibition surfaces by adding new buildings and redeploying the collections. The project aims to make the museum a major pole for a quality cultural development, so that the visitor can appreciate the artistic pieces deposited.
On March 18, 2015, an Islamist terrorist group attacked the museum and took tourists hostage in the building. The attack, which killed 22 people including 21 foreign tourists, was claimed by ISIS.
The Bardo National Museum building was originally a 15th-century Hafsid palace, located in the suburbs of Tunis.
The Bardo is one of the most important museums of the Mediterranean basin, and the second largest on the African continent after the Egyptian Museum. It traces the history of Tunisia over several millennia and through many civilizations through a wide variety of archaeological pieces. Being in the former palace, it offers many major works discovered since the beginnings of archaeological research in the country. Originally called Museum Alaoui , the name of the reigning bey at the time, it has had its current name of Museum of Bardo only since the country's independence.
In addition to famous works such as the Blue Koran of Kairouan, the Islamic Department contains a collection of ceramics from North Africa and Asia Minor.
The Bardo brings together one of the finest and largest collections of Roman mosaics in the world thanks to the excavations undertaken from the beginning of the 20th century on archaeological sites in the country including Carthage, Hadrumetum, Dougga, or Utica. The mosaics represent a unique source for research on everyday life in Roman Africa. The Museum also contains a rich collection of marble statues representing the gods and Roman emperors found on various sites including those of Carthage and Thuburbo Majus.
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Sbeitla Photography by Agnieszka Wolska
Sbeitla is a small town in north-central Tunisia. The oldest traces of civilization in the zone are Punic megaliths. In 647 AD the Arabs won a famous victory here making Sbeitla the shortest-lived of all Tunisian's capitals. What remains of Roman Sufetula sits on a level plain, with beautiful scenic interest. It boast the best preserved complex of Forum temples in the country. It also has some fine Christian remains and the most unadulterated Roman city in Tunisia.
This video is part of a project Cultural heritage as an instrument for democracy by EUNIC in Tunisia, in co-operation with the European Union Delegation in Tunisia. The presentation video of Sbeitla was produced especially for this program, it is an introduction to the venture. The EUNIC Cluster in Tunisia plans to organise an Action Workshop between the 27th and 30th of June 2013, at Sbeitla (Kasserine Governorate).
The press conference was held on June 20th, 2013, with the introduction of this video: