Kairouan
Where the history continues its history
Located at the centre of Tunisia, the intersection of many roads and only at 30 km of the port El KANTAOUI (seaside resort and tourist of the town of SOUSSE), the old city of the town of KAIROUAN is most important of the Moslems cities of the north of Africa, having a cultural influence and very important scholastic who opened the borders to him on Europe and Asia dice the 9eme century.
With its Medina and its ramparts, where painting and decorates it points out the old Arab style to you, with its many Mosques and mausoleums and other prehistoric monuments and sites, KAIROUAN, is the city where the interest with the history and the religion is manifest. It is also the centre of Arts, where the inhabitants have jealously to safeguard the rich person heritage which the founders of the city theirs left, the traditions and the original style of the time, persist still nowadays.
The large Mosque of KAIROUAN A was builds into 670 by the famous conqueror OKBA IBN NAFÂA who made this city the capital of the Arab world - Moslem and named the IFRIQUIA, the old city of Islam.
Like centres culture and of study, where the level of scholarship is phenomenal, the Mosque attracts a significant number of students, this university known in the whole world, it is enriched and it is consolidated during its long historical course and became nowadays, an imposing monument.
The ZAOUIA of SIDI SAHABI is known like the Mausoleum of the Berber ones. At the interior is the tombs of the companions of the Arab prophets who chose to live to KAIROUAN. SIDI SAHABI was always near the prophet, it was then allowed to keep after the death of this last, three wicks of its beard. And for this reason it is known in the world like the barber of the prophet.