Tunisia - A Multiview with Camels, Etc.

Tunisie

This postcard was postmarked from Tunisia in 2022.

Tunisia - A Multiview Postcard

Tunisie (Tunisia) 

This postcard was postmarked in 2026.

 

Tunisia - Monastir, Mausoleum of Habib Bourguiba

Mausolee Bourguiba in Tunisie 

Mausoleum of Habib Bourguiba in Monastir, Tunisia 

This postcard was postmarked in 2021.

 

Tunisia, Hammamet

Tunisia - El Haouaria, Kerkouane

El Haouaria
Kerkouane

Tunisie
2011

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UNESCO declared the Punic Town of Kerkouane and its Necropolis a World Heritage Site in 1985, citing among other things that the remains constitute the only example of a Phoenicio-Punic city to have survived.  (The Punics were a people from Ancient Carthage.)

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El Haouaria is a coastal town and commune in Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 9,273.

Tunisia - Tunis Multiview

Tunis
Tunisie
2014

Tunisia - Doors of Tunisia

Portes de Tunisie
(Doors of Tunisia)
2014

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Most doors in Tunisia are large and made of solid wood. They are mainly blue or yellow, however other colors, are used.

Tunisia - Tunis Hilton Hotel

Tunis Hilton
Belvedere Superiur
Tunis (Tunisia, North Africa)

250 Air conditioned rooms, various restaurants, bar, convention & banqueting facilities, swimming pool & private beach.

Stay With People Who Care
1974

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This is now called the Sheraton Tunis Hotel & Towers

Tunis is the capital of the Tunisian Republic with a population of 1,200,000 in 2008 and over 3,980,500 in the greater Tunis area. It is Tunisia's largest city.

It is situated on a large Mediterranean Sea gulf (the Gulf of Tunis).

Tunisia - Djerba, Multiview with Map

Djerba, Tunisia
2010

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Djerba is, at 514 km², the largest island off North Africa, located in the Gulf of Gabes off the coast of Tunisia.

Djerba is a popular tourist destination. One factor drawing some tourists to Djerba is the 1977 location of the Mos Eisley exterior scenes in the first Star Wars movie, filmed in the town of Ajim.

(Mos Eisley is a spaceport  town on the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars movies.)

Tunisia - Le Souk des Etoffes, Fabric Market

Tunis - Le Souk des Etoffes

(Tunisia - The Fabric Market)

1960

Tunisia - Multiview with Matmata

Tunisie (Tunisia)
The friendship view card
2013

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There is no writing on the postcard to tell what these places are.  However, I think the bottom center is Matmata.

Matmata is a small town in southern Tunisia. The structures typical for the village are created by digging a large pit in the ground. Around the perimeter of this pit artificial caves are then dug to be used as rooms, with some homes comprising multiple pits, connected by trench-like passageways.

Tunisia - Saphir Palace, Yasmine Hammamet Hotels

Saphir Palace
Yasmine Hammamet
2011

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Hammamet is a town in Tunisia. Due to its beaches it is a popular destination for swimming and water sports. It was the first tourist destination in Tunisia.

It is particularly known for jasmine, and this is how the tourist resort of Yasmine Hammamet got its name. All over Hammamet, souvenirs made of jasmine can be found.

Tunisia - Multiview with Camels and Sunsets

Sud Tunisie
(Southern Tunisia)

Tunisia - Map

Tunisia
2011

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Tunisia, officially the Tunisian Republic, is the northernmost country in Africa. Its area is almost 165,000 square kilometres (64,000 sq mi), with an estimated population of just over 10.4 million.

It is the smallest nation along the Atlas mountain range. The south of the country is composed of the Sahara desert, and the rest has 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) of coastline.

Tunisia - El Jem, The Amphiteatre

L'Amphitheatre d'El DJem
Tunisie
The amphitheatre of El DJem
Tunisia
2012

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El Djem is a town in Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia, population 18,302 (2004 census). It is home to some of the most impressive Roman remains in Africa.

El Djem is famous for its amphitheater, often incorrectly called a Colosseum, which is capable of seating 35,000 spectators.

The amphitheatre at El Djem was built by the Romans around 238 and was probably mainly used for gladiator shows and chariot races. Many tourists come here to see what it was like to be inside what was once a place where lions and people met their fate. Much of it is crumbled but the essence of it still remains. It is also possible that construction of the amphitheatre was never finished.

Until the 17th century it remained more or less whole. From then on its stones were used for building the nearby village of El Djem and transported to the Great Mosque in Kairouan.

The ruins of the amphitheatre were declared a World Heritage Site in 1979.

Tunisia - Vue D'Ensemble

Bizerte - Vue D'Ensemble - LL, (Overview)
(the main building you see is the Hotel de Ville)

Lt. R.H. Green writes:
Dear Mom,

Just to let you know everything is O.K.,

postmarked with a U.S. Army APO address on Jul 12, 1943 (world war II)

Here is some information I found on old postcards about the small flatiron building on the left  -  This  flatiron building is on a road that was called L'Avenue de France and the building was Au petit Louvre.  But that was in 1910,   (Before that the road was called Avenue d'Algérie et rue d'Athènes and the building was called  La Ménagère)  If anyone knows what it is today, please leave a message.

El Jem - Tunisia

El Jem - Tunisia

The amphitheatre of El Djem (this is written in 4 languages on the back)

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El Djem is famous for its amphitheatre (often incorrectly called "a coliseum"), capable of seating 35,000 spectators. Only Rome's Colosseum (about 45,000 spectators) and the ruined theatre of Capua are larger. The amphitheatre was built by the Romans around 238 and was probably mainly used for gladiator shows and chariot races.

Until the 17th century it remained more or less whole. From then on its stones were used for building the nearby village of El Djem and transported to the Great Mosque in Kairouan, and at a tense moment during struggles with the Ottomans, the Turks used cannons to flush rebels out of the amphitheatre.

The ruins of the amphitheatre were declared a World Heritage Site in 1979.