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Tunis

Tunis (تونس) is the capital of Tunisia. There are quite a few must-see attractions, especially if you include the ruins of Carthage, which are easily accessed from here, and the Punic ports are interesting, too. Wikivoyage

Population 602,560 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Tunisia

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Tunisia

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Carthage Film Festival

    November

    Carthage Film Festival (Journées cinématographiques de Carthage, or JCC) is an annual film festival that takes place in Tunis, founded in 1966. It is also known by its Arabic title, أيام قرطاج السينمائية ("Cinema Days of Carthage").

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage; descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • Marché de Tunis

    السوق المركزي - Marché de Tunis

    Covered hall

    No hours mapped

    610 m from the centre

  • سوق الكومسيون

    No hours mapped

    770 m from the centre

  • Souk Sidi Boumendil

    No hours mapped

    830 m from the centre

  • Fripes el Hafsia

    No hours mapped

    960 m from the centre

  • Souk

    No hours mapped

    980 m from the centre

  • سوق باب الجزيرة

    No hours mapped

    990 m from the centre

  • Marché Sidi El Bahri

    No hours mapped

    1.0 km from the centre

  • Marché El Kallaline

    No hours mapped

    1.0 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 40 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.