Tunisia Travel Guide
Architecture

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Tunisia's architectural styles range from magnificent Islamic structures - mosques [see Kairouan], minarets, arches, narrow-alley medinas - to military forts [picture above in Sousse], walls and towers, to Roman [see El Jem], and Berber pit houses [see Matmata], but unfortunately the majority of buildings visible on any trip around the country are going to be half-built eyesores of unfinished brick or breeze-block, with steel reinforcements semi-permanently on display.
The reason for this is that banks will not lend money for house development so proud owners expand their properties little by little whenever there are a few spare dinars around. Finishing a small dwelling can easily take ten years.

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