Tourism in Tunisia: Benzart

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Bizerte town located in the far north of Tunisia on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, making it occupies a prominent strategy allowed it to be the center of the mandate of Bizerte and economically important pole position. The mandate of Bizerte mandate contained integrated including the rich natural resources, and it contains a variety of axes of development in the areas of agriculture, fishing and industry.


Antique City:

Antique city looks in the form of a thick oriental city besieged by a fence, and surrounded on all sides multiple watercourses. And has a low-detached houses with roofs by a special system. The shelves where people meet, and receives the sea products, they activated the city and give them those kinetic characterized by the marine cities.

  This is the central area in the most suitable places on the sidewalks of the old marina, which combines the main mosque (Great Mosque) and the most important angles (Sir Almstara and Sidi Ahmed Tijani) and the most beautiful way (eye Jerina) and the largest markets (Attarine and blacksmiths) big bathroom and bath beach, which gives the city Teachers character. Despite the many different changes and demolition work, the ancient city has retained its traditional structure dating back to the mediator Covenant.


castle of kasba



Look this castle, above the north bank of the canal leading to the old marina, in the form of a rectangle regular accurately, which built up a piece of land almost flat. And where it comes to defense facility, the wall thereof, containing only one door on the western elbowed faced that connects directly between him and the oldest nucleus of the city of Bizerte: the antique city. The link is located in the public square called "broad coal," which is one of the most popular and most crowded squares of Bizerte.

  And this huge castle fortified with eight towers, a square parts and rectangular in shape, and is every tower in the corner of the castle: one in the west wall and two in the north wall and one in the east wall, there is a lane circular formatted at the top of the wall behind the Detaining walls, allowing the guard Golan on the three facades, northern, eastern and western.

ksiba

To defend the entrance to the southern bank of the Canal old marina, the Byzantines built a stronghold consists of a large rectangular tower, it contains a great guard hall square shape, covered with four domes indignation slatted based on a central column huge square section. There are halls two small annexed to Great Hall, M_khasstan to break the agents guard, and the halls were similar located on the first floor, and there are a set of narrow rooms open on Dakhlah.hma Square but reflect on the architectural details, and in the use of Arab origin brackets, the materials used and overlapping construction, It leads us to think about the fact that the Arabs may closets added to the original Byzantine tower, during the ninth or tenth century AD, and assuming that the Arab armies may be diverted to the mooring tower, and added to the rooms to house the Guard or to store food and weapons.

  The round tower, which represents the front of the defensive device from the old entrance to the marina, it is linked to the Byzantine tower rectangular wall, topped by Darb guard up between the two towers.

Fort Spain

Above the top of a hill, "Kedia" great castle called the Spanish fort, and it seems appropriate that the label is actually attributed to the construction of this fort to the Spaniards who occupied the city of Joan July 1535 to September 1573 m. In fact, the Pasha Algeria Alj Ali is the one who ordered the construction of this fort in the year 1570 as examples Engineer Sicilians developed which also draw examples forts Aldzair.ala city that Alj Ali did not afford the time to complete its work as it expelled him in September 1578 of the Spanish-led forces "Don Juan" Austrian. Spaniards will be building the tower and they attribute to them. Fort shows in Spain with five arms of the star-shaped, for reasons obvious defensive Contains no one door, allows him to supervise its excellent location on the city and its port and defend it with guns erected above the impregnable walls.

Antique markets

Various commercial and craft activities are concentrated around the old port, there is no different markets organized by its terms of reference, a butchers market and market Alzenaadah (arms manufacturers) and market blacksmiths and carpenters market and market Attarine and market fruits and vegetables.


Tourism in Tunisia : Benzart

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