Description Tunisia, Tunisia

Tunis - the capital of the Republic of Tunisia, the provincial capital of Tunisia, cultural and economic center of the state. Bizarre connection to European civilization and Arab Africa - that shape today's Tunisia. The city is quite harmoniously supermodern mirror-glass building with a central boulevard, built by the French and Medina - the medieval Arab city with markets, mosques and shopping stalls.

The capital of Tunisia is located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea Gulf of Tunis, with the lake and the Tunisian port of La Gulett (Arabic Khalq al-Wadi). The city stretches along the coastal plain and its surrounding hills. This is the largest city in the country.

Tunisia is a major trade, economic, industrial and cultural center of the country. Here are the textile, chemical, cement, food processing, metal processing industries. There is an international airport. A seaport city exported carpets, fruits, olives and iron ore.

Streets of Tunisia were originally very narrow, owing to considerations of defense, the same considerations made in the homes of double doors, some preserved until now.

The houses were built, usually of stone or clay bricks, and then their belili (by the way, and now often in Tunisia are building houses out of these materials). Doors, painted in blue, green or ocher-brown color, decorated with intricate carvings. Above the door Mashrabi - "blind window" through which Muslim women could see what is happening on the street, staying invisible because of the iron or wooden blinds. "Calls" have been made in the form of women's hands (lucky hand of Fatima), which had to knock on the door.