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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage in Tunisia.

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Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
Amphitheater of El Jem	Cultural	(iv) (vi)	In the small town of El Jem rise the impressive ruins of the largest colosseum in North Africa, a huge amphitheater which could accommodate 35,000 spectators. This construction from the 3rd century illustrates the extension and grandeur of the Roman Empire.	UNESCO sheet
Punic city of Kerkouane and its necropolis	Cultural	(iii)	This Phoenician city, undoubtedly abandoned during the first Punic war (around 250 BC), and not having been rebuilt by the Romans, offers us the only vestiges of a Phoenician-Punic city. that has survived. Its houses were built according to a standard plan, following a very elaborate town planning model.	UNESCO sheet
Dougga / Thugga	Cultural	(ii) (iii)	Before the Roman annexation of Numidia, the city of Thugga, built on a hill overlooking a fertile plain, was the capital of a Libyco-Punic state. It flourished under Roman and Byzantine rule but declined during the Islamic period. The ruins visible today bear witness to the resources of a small Roman town on the borders of the Empire.	UNESCO sheet
35.676310.10161 Kairouan	Cultural	(i) (ii) (iii) (v) (vi)	Founded in 670, the city of Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9th century. Despite the transfer of the political capital to Tunis in the 12th century, Kairouan remained the first holy city of the Maghreb. Its rich architectural heritage includes the Great Mosque, with its marble and porphyry columns, and the Three-Doors Mosque which dates from the 9th century.	UNESCO sheet
Sousse Medina	Cultural	(iii) (iv) (v)	Sousse, an important commercial and military port under the Aghlabids (800-909), is a typical example of a city from the first centuries of Islam. With its casbah, its ramparts, its medina and its Great Mosque, the Bu Ftata mosque and its typical ribat, both a fort and a religious building, it was one of the elements of a coastal defense system.	UNESCO sheet
Medina of Tunis	Cultural	(ii) (iii) (v)	During the reign of the Almohads and the Hafsids, from the 12th to the 16th century, Tunis was considered one of the most important and wealthy cities in the Islamic world. Some 700 monuments including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, medersa and fountains bear witness to this remarkable past.	UNESCO sheet
Carthage archaeological site	Cultural	(ii) (iii) (vi)	Founded in the 9th century BC. BC on the Gulf of Tunis, Carthage established from the 6th century a commercial empire extending to a large part of the Mediterranean world and was the seat of a brilliant civilization. During the long Punic wars, it occupied territories of Rome, but the latter finally destroyed it in 146 BC. A second Carthage, Roman this one, was then founded on its ruins.	UNESCO sheet
Ichkeul National Park	Natural	(x)	The lake and the wetlands of Ichkeul constitute an essential staging post for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds - ducks, geese, storks, flamingos, etc. - which come to feed and nest there. The lake is the last remnant of a chain of lakes that once stretched across North Africa.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) To be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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