Don't Miss in Hammamet
 
The “Camel Market” in Nabeul on Friday mornings. The town is the centre of Tunisia’s pottery industry.
Mint Tea in the Moorish Café by the entrance to the Medina in the old town centre.
Hammamet International Cultural Centre, a beautiful villa built by a Romanian Millionaire Georges Sebastien in 1925. Rommel and Churchill stayed there during World War II. It also hosts the International Hammamet Festival.
 

 
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Hammamet is possibly the best-known resort in Tunisia. It has changed greatly from the small fishing village it once was, evolving into a sought-after holiday resort in the 1920’s.

Known as the ‘garden resort’ it is backed by olive, orange and lemon groves and lines of cypress trees.

Hammamet’s centre is a miniature cape jutting out into the sea with the well preserved 13th century Kasbah offering pleasing views over the gleaming domes of the Medina (the old walled city) and the white sands of the coastline.

The newer quarters of Hammamet with shops, cafés and restaurants spread out from the Medina.


For refined Tunisian food with a French influence, try Les Trois Moutons or Dar Lella restaurants. Reasonably priced snacks are available in the cafés in the town centre. Afterwards head for one of the open-air nightclubs.


Trains to Tunis, Sousse and El Djem leave several times a day from nearby Bir Bou Regba station. Taxis are cheap and plentiful and a noddy train runs around the resort.

Yasmine Hammamet is Tunisia’s newest resort. Situated just south of Hammamet, it is made up of predominantly four and five star luxury hotels. Built around a 740-berth marina, it recreates the style of many elegant resorts around the Mediterranean.

There is a sophisticated new medina, with luxurious boutiques, cafés and restaurants, theatres and museums and a fabulous residential complex.

The apartments within the site are the epitome of luxury and comfort and surround magnificent swimming pools.

Yasmine Hammamet is the perfect location for a holiday with a difference. Families can enjoy Carthage Land, a theme park with thrilling rides, and Blue Ice, the only ice rink in the country. Adults may choose to relax on the golf course in one of the many thalassotherapy centres, on miles of golden sandy beaches.


Trains to Tunis, Sousse and El Djem leave several times a day from nearby Bir Bou Regba station. Taxis are cheap and plentiful and a noddy train runs around the resort.
 
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