Itinerary
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Stop at : Site Archeologique Uthina
The ancient city of Uthina is located around 30 km south of the capital, at a place called Oudhna, at the top of an eminence overlooking the main access routes to Carthage from the south and west of the country. Its foundation seems to date back to Berber times, as its toponymy attests. As history ebbed and flowed, it was punished and then Romanized, before two brief Vandal and Byzantine tutelage periods - each lasting almost a century - preluded a definitive decline after the Arab conquest in the 7th century.
The protected site covers some 100 hectares. Its imposing buildings date back to Roman times and are currently being cleared and consolidated. These are the capital, the largest in Africa, laid out on three levels; Two groups of very large-capacity reservoirs; Large public baths and small private baths; The remains of patrician residences, an amphitheater with an initial capacity of over 10,000 spectators.
Stop at : The Zaghouan aqueduct
This is a Roman aqueduct, which supplied water to the city of Carthage, measured 132 km! The Zaghouan-Carthage hydraulic complex is the largest of its kind ever built.
Built in the early 2nd century AD, the Zaghouan aqueduct bears witness to Roman mastery of water supply techniques. It cuts through a rugged landscape. Sometimes at ground level, sometimes underground, the pipeline is, on two sections, elevated by arches sometimes reaching heights of over 20 meters. Its flow rate has been estimated at some 30 million liters per day.
Most of the water was stored in the gigantic vaulted reservoirs visible at Maalga, at the entrance to Carthage, before supplying the Thermes d'Antonin.
Stop at : Zaghouan
Zaghouan is a town in the northeast, the capital of the governorate of the same name, located 50 km from Tunis. Set on the slopes of Djebel Zaghouan, it overlooks a vast agricultural plain
On the site of the ancient Ziqua, of which only a triumphal gate remains, Zaghouan is a town of steep lanes cut by small squares offering a view over the plain. Home to around 16,000 inhabitants, the town is famous for its roses, particularly rose hips, which were cultivated by Andalusian Muslims driven out of Spain in the 17th century during the Reconquista.
A region renowned for its springs (the ancient ones), Zaghouan, attracts both Tunisians and tourists from the Arab world for its hammams.
Stop at : Thuburbo Majus
The ancient city of Thuburbo Majus was founded on a hillside, surrounded by a beautiful fertile valley landscape, long before North Africa became part of the Roman Empire.
However, it's its magnificent remains from Roman times that make it one of Tunisia's finest archaeological sites.
Its Capitol - the most important temple of Roman cities - is one of the best preserved in Tunisia.
Six elegant Corinthian columns formed the façade. Four are still intact and overlook a wide staircase overlooking the Forum.
One of the original features of Thuburbo Majus was that it had two bathing establishments: one for winter and the other for summer. The summer baths were complemented by a sports ground, surrounded by a beautiful covered gallery, called Palestre des Petronii after the Roman family who built the monument.
