Hammamet

Hammamet First drawing all the artists as André Gide and Paul Klee, Hammamet has become in the space of half a century a tourist resort ultra Tunisia. The wealthy Tunisians were also there to build their second home, a sign that does not lie on the beauty of the site.
Despite the thousands of tourists who invade each year, the city still has a certain charm. Its medina, surrounded by ramparts, houses souks fabrics and fragrances. The narrow streets with flowers are an invitation to a slow vagrancy. If you come in spring you humerez the smell of orange blossoms. We almost forget to visit the beautiful villa Sebastian west of the city.

Facing the beach were built many hotels in Moorish style. Latest, the Yasmine Hammamet resort, pseudo-city grafted to the city. This complex consists of fifty hotels, restaurants, a marina, an amusement park (Carthageland) and even a reconstruction of a medina!

Not far away, Nabeul figure is little more authentic village. It is a hotbed of Tunisian handicrafts. This city has earned its reputation through its manufacture of ceramics and matting. The waters of orange blossom, jasmine and geranium are another of his expertise. The market on Friday morning, attracting a crowd of tourists and Tunisians from across the region. If you go there, do not hesitate to bargain.

The amazing story of Hammamet

Hammamet would not be what it is today if a man there was not installed in the 1930s man, Georges Sebastian, was a wealthy Romanian billionaire. Love this little paradise, he built a sumptuous. He then invited his friends, who in turn decided to do build villas in the medina or in the vicinity of Hammamet. Thus the fame of this flies.

If it still goes back in time, we discover qu'Hammamet was a small city called Puputt in Roman times. In today Puputt site, you can see Roman houses and a necropolis. Part of the site is still being excavated.

It was not until the thirteenth century to speak of a real city. Hafsides Hammamet endowed with ramparts and a mosque. The city at that time experienced a boom. In the sixteenth century, the Spanish built the kasbah (citadel). In the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, Hammamet fell into a period of decline. The reign of Mouradites and development of agriculture revived growth in the city.

In 1881 began the period of the French protectorate. The French brought in Hammamet rail, electricity and telephone. The city transforms into early twentieth a resort that attracts Europeans.