Sousse
A walled medina on the Tunisian coast with a ribat you climb for the view over its roofs. The resort strip north of it is a completely different holiday.
Sousse in eight slides
Wikipedia · 4 Sep 2026
Things to do in Sousse
Where to stay in Sousse
Sousse in a day, two days, three
- Day 14 stops
- Dar Essid MuseumUNESCO
- Great Mosque of SousseUNESCO
- Hadrumetum
- Medina of SousseUNESCO
Landmarks in Sousse
The Dar Essid Museum is an art museum located in a palace in the medina of Sousse, Tunisia. The edifice belonged to a family of aristocrats.
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Sousse, Sūsah, or Soussa, is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 Jul 2026
Mietek Ł · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the early modern period, it was the village of Hammeim, now part of Sousse, Tunisia.
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Giorces · CC BY 2.5
Sousse, Sūsah, or Soussa, is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 Jul 2026
Mietek Ł · CC BY-SA 3.0
Port El Kantaoui is a tourist complex 10 kilometres north of Sousse city in central Tunisia. It was built in 1979 specifically as a tourist center, around a large artificial harbour that provides mooring with 340 berths for luxury yachts, hosting sporting activities from water skiing to paragliding, and several golf courses.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 10 Aug 2026
Tony Hisgett · CC BY 2.0
Sousse, Sūsah, or Soussa, is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 Jul 2026
Mietek Ł · CC BY-SA 3.0
On 26 June 2015, a mass shooting occurred at the tourist resort at Port El Kantaoui, about 10 kilometres north of the city of Sousse, Tunisia. 38 people, 30 of whom were British, were killed when a gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui, attacked a hotel. It was the deadliest non-state attack in the history of modern Tunisia, with more fatalities than the 22 killed in the Bardo National Museum attack three months before.
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The Dar Essid Museum is an art museum located in a palace in the medina of Sousse, Tunisia. The edifice belonged to a family of aristocrats.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 4 Sep 2024
User: (WT-shared) Shoestring at wts wikivoyage · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sousse, Sūsah, or Soussa, is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 Jul 2026
Mietek Ł · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the early modern period, it was the village of Hammeim, now part of Sousse, Tunisia.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 18 Jul 2026
Giorces · CC BY 2.5
Sousse, Sūsah, or Soussa, is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 Jul 2026
Mietek Ł · CC BY-SA 3.0
Port El Kantaoui is a tourist complex 10 kilometres north of Sousse city in central Tunisia. It was built in 1979 specifically as a tourist center, around a large artificial harbour that provides mooring with 340 berths for luxury yachts, hosting sporting activities from water skiing to paragliding, and several golf courses.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 10 Aug 2026
Tony Hisgett · CC BY 2.0
Sousse, Sūsah, or Soussa, is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 25 Jul 2026
Mietek Ł · CC BY-SA 3.0