Tunisia

A Phoenician colony founded around 814 BCE on the Tunisian cape, later a mighty Roman rival and the largest city in the ancient Mediterranean, now excavated ruins near modern Tunis.

A large island in the Gulf of Gabès off Tunisia's southern coast, known for its whitewashed villages, centuries-old synagogues, traditional handicrafts and shallow turquoise lagoon beaches.

A Saharan frontier town on the edge of the Grand Erg Oriental dune sea in Tunisia's southwest, known as the gateway to the Sahara and for its weekly camel market and annual Festival of the Sahara.

A vast Roman amphitheatre in the inland town of El Djem, built in the third century CE and capable of holding up to 35,000 spectators, one of the largest surviving amphitheatres in the Roman world.

A holy city in central Tunisia founded in 670 CE, once the capital of the Maghreb under the Aghlabid dynasty, home to the Great Mosque of Kairouan and considered the fourth holiest city in Islam after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.

A cliff-top town above the Gulf of Tunis, famous for its uniform blue-and-white architecture, cobalt-painted doors and ironwork balconies, beloved by artists from Paul Klee to Simone de Beauvoir.