It was quite a long drive to Sbeitla... but worth it!
The main attraction is the forum area with three important temples dedicated to Minerva, Jupiter and Juno, the gods who protected Rome.
This was the Treasury under one of the temples......
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Kairouan is one of Tunisia's most holy cities ........
The Great Mosque is one of the oldest places of worship in Africa! Founded in 670 AD
Some stones with roman writing were used when building the minaret!
We were not allowed to enter the prayer room.... photos from the door OK!!
We checked out the Aghlabid Basins built in the 9th century to provide water to Kairouan.
Then on to the Medina.........
Then next day on to another Roman site El Djem. which has the largest amphitheater in Africa.......
Underneath where animals were kept during performances.......
After visiting the Amphitheatre we went to an amazing mosaic museum and a reconstructed Roman villa with its original mosaic floors as they had been in Roman times!
The museum had a huge number of mosaic floors which had been painfully excavated!
...and then we went to the villa.....
The Dining room!
and then an unknown purpose room......
.....very similar to Botticelli's ' Birth of Venus'!! Very curious!
There is still a large area to be fully excavated...... they just lack the funds!
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