El Djem UNESCO Colosseum & Mahdia Fatimid Medina Daytrip
Why we love it?
The El Djem UNESCO Colosseum & Mahdia Fatimid Medina Daytrip offers a comprehensive exploration of Tunisia's rich history and culture. Spanning 7 hours and 30 minutes, this tour is ideal for history enthusiasts and travelers looking to delve into the ancient world. Participants will visit the impressive El Djem Colosseum, one of the largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheaters, before heading to Mahdia, known for its charming Fatimid Medina. The experience is enhanced by private transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle, complete with WiFi, ensuring a comfortable journey as you uncover the archaeological treasures of the Salakta Archaeological Museum and the vibrant local culture.
Inclusions
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- WiFi on board
- All Fees and Taxes
- Private transportation
Exclusions
- Lunch
Itinerary
The Salakta Archaeological Museum
is a small museum set up within the ancient site of Sullectum, a port city south of Mahdia which was very prosperous in Antiquity and which maintained commercial relations with other Mediterranean ports, notably Italian ones. And it shows in the windows of this antiquarium.
The visit opens on a mosaic panel reproducing a poem (translated on a sign) that celebrates the benefits of swimming and the pleasures of life. Then, at the back of the room following the hall, another mosaic panel depicting a lion awkwardly executed but of impressive proportions:3 meters high!
Most of the objects exhibited in the windows of the 4 rooms that make up this museum come from the necropolis adjoining the museum and which, moreover, provided specimens of terracotta burials; Others come from ancient port facilities or from the Christian catacombs built in the basement in surrounding fields.
Step 2
Installed at the entrance to the old town in old renovated town hall premises, this museum is as much a reflection of the general history of the country to which the city has contributed by a good chapter, as that, more specific, From Mahdia herself.
Under the first part, the museum returns to us, on the ground floor, objects dating back to Libyco-Punic and Roman-African antiquity while part of the floor is dedicated to the legacy of the Byzantine and Islamic. Greek civilization is represented by two marble columns, partly gnawed by mollusks and coming from a Roman wreck loaded with war booty that was wrecked off Mahdia and most of the cargo, recovered in the 1940s, is exhibited in the 'Mahdia' wing of the Bardo museum.
Under the second part, the floor gives us a large number of handicrafts (carved and painted woodwork, mosaics, ornate stucco, ceramics, earthenware, treasures, and jewels)
Step 3
Mahdia, a city with a glorious past - it was the first capital of the Fatimid caliphs in the 10th century -, is built flush with rock on a thin peninsula. She pulls everything, its charm of its sapphire-colored sea, of its superb beaches, its medina and its
animation of traditional small town, the town of fishermen and silk weavers.
Step 4
This Borj, also known as a Kasbah, is a fortress that was erected at the end of the 16th century on the site of an ancient Fatimid palace and is considered to be one of the finest examples of Ottoman military architecture.
Founded on a quadrangular plan and later endowed with bastions of angles, the building is surrounded by a powerful wall originally pierced with a single entrance (after its reassignment for prison use, another access was there Built in the 19th century). This door gives access, by a vaulted and bent passage, to a courtyard on which give rooms, also vaulted.
At the southeast corner of this courtyard, an oratory of previous construction that has been saved and integrated into the building.
Please Note
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller or pram accessible
- Infants must not sit on laps
- Wheelchair accessible
- Pick-up from, any address in Tunis Hammamet Sousse and Monastir
Know Before You Go
- Animals or pets allowed
- Public transportation nearby
- Infant seats available
Cancellation Policy
Fully refundable until 1 day before start
Non-refundable after 1 day before start
