March 22, 2024
On our way to our next destination, we passed by the Tunisian Parliament building. Its style really seems to fit what we had seen of the country. I love it.
There are multiple gates to the old town/medina of Tunis still standing, and this is one of them: the Bab Saadoun gate, first constructed as one arch in 1350 and reconstructed in 1881 with three arches to better handle the traffic. The wall it was once part of is gone, but the gate remains as the central feature of a modern roundabout.
Wikipedia has a picture of what it looked like with one arch in 1880:
. . . and another photo from 1940 showing what it looked like when the wall was still there.
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