You must visit the medina while you are in Sfax. It's a crazy, bustling marketplace in an old area of the city which is surrounded by walls. There are no cars inside, just pedestrian traffic. There are Medina's in most of the large Tunisian cities, but Sfax's seemed the most inviting of the ones I visited.
This Medina was also the place where parts of "The English Patient" were filmed
Updated Jun 18, 2004
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You must visit the medina while you are in Sfax. It's a crazy, bustling marketplace in an old area of the city which is surrounded by walls. There are no cars...
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Back in 1999, a 19-year-old British tourist stocked up on diarrhoea tablets, bread and coke for his older brother who was feeling slightly under the weather in a beachside hotel in Mahdia. While the...
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I wouldn't go as far as Ronald Firbank and call Sfax the mostt beautiful city in the world, but as far as the center goes I thought it most attractive. The suburbs may be ugly and it may be surrounded...
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SO WHAT SFAX ACTUALLY IS, OR AN OFFICIAL VIEW Sfax, major port town, east-central Tunisia on the northern shore of the Gulf of Gabes. Built on the site of two small settlements of antiquity, Taparura...
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