Le Kram
Le Kram is a town and commune in the Tunis Governorate of Tunisia.
Le Kram is a town and commune in the Tunis Governorate of Tunisia. It is situated between La Goulette, the port of Tunis, and Carthage, facing the Gulf of Tunis to the east and the Lake of Tunis to the west. As of the 2024 census, it had a population of 88,302. Prior to 2001, Le Kram was a municipal district within the neighbouring municipality of La Goulette.
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Worth seeing in and around Le Kram
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Byrsa
Byrsa was a walled citadel above the Phoenician harbour in ancient Carthage, Tunisia, as well as the name of the hill it rested on.
2.5 km · hill in Tunisia · Wikipedia - 02Saint Louis Cathedral
The Acropolium, also known as Saint Louis Cathedral, is a former Latin Catholic church located in Carthage, Tunisia. The cathedral sits on the peak of Byrsa Hill, near the ruins of the ancient Punic and then Roman city.
2.7 km · cathedral in Tunisia · Wikipedia - 03Carthage University
The University of Carthage is a university located in Tunis, Tunisia, and was founded in 1988.
4.7 km · university in Tunisia · Wikipedia - 04Carthage Palace
Carthage Palace is the presidential palace of Tunisia, and the official residence and seat of the President of Tunisia. It is located along the Mediterranean Sea in the commune of Carthage, near the archaeological site of the ancient city, fifteen kilometers from Tunis.
3.6 km · presidential palace in Tunisia · Wikipedia - 05Tophet of Carthage
The Carthage tophet is an ancient sacred area dedicated to the Phoenician deities Tanit and Baal Hammon, located in the Carthaginian district of Salammbô, Tunisia, near the Punic ports. This tophet, a "hybrid of sanctuary and necropolis", contains a large number of children's tombs, estimated to be over 20,000, which, according to some interpretations, were sacrificed or buried here after their untimely death.
1.4 km · cemetery in Tunisia · Wikipedia - 06Carthage National Museum
Carthage National Museum is a national museum in Byrsa, Tunisia. Along with the Bardo National Museum, it is one of the two main local archaeological museums in the region.
2.6 km · museum in Carthage, Tunisia · Wikipedia - 07Basilica of Damous El Karita
The basilica of Damous El Karita is an ancient basilica, located in Carthage, in modern Tunisia, dating from the Late antiquity and the Byzantine epoch. It is situated nearby the Odeon hills within the archeological site of Carthage.
3.7 km · basilica in Tunisia · Wikipedia - 08Carthage Paleo-Christian Museum
The Carthage Paleo-Christian Museum is an archaeological museum of Paleochristian artifacts, located in Carthage, Tunisia. Built on an excavation site, it lies above the former Carthaginian basilica.
2.1 km · museum in Carthage, Tunisia · Wikipedia - 09Basilica of Saint Cyprian
The Basilica of Saint-Cyprien, also known as Basilica near Sainte-Monique, is a ruined Christian temple located on the edge of the Tunisian archaeological site of Carthage, on the Bordj Djedid plateau and the seafront. The Christian basilicas of Carthage were excavated by the White Fathers from the 1880s onwards.
4.2 km · basilica in Tunisia · Wikipedia - 10Horses' mosaïc of Carthage
The mosaic of the horses is a Roman-era mosaic, approximately twelve meters by nine, discovered in 1960 at the archaeological site of Carthage, in present-day Tunisia, near the enigmatic monument known as the building with columns. It was later moved to the archaeological park of the Roman villas, near the so-called "Aviary Villa." The mosaic is a checkerboard alternating between small figurative panels—mostly representations of horses—and geometric compositions.
3.3 km · Roman mosaic from the archaeological site of Carthage · Wikipedia
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Getting to Le Kram
- Airports
- Tunis Carthage (TUN), 8 km · Annaba Rabah Bitat (AAE), 223 km · Falcone–Borsellino (PMO), 287 km
- Stations
- Punic ports of Carthage, 1.8 km
- Mellita → Le Kram252 km · quickest by road, 9h 51m · $24–33
- Annaba → Le Kram227 km · quickest by road, 5h 11m · $25–34
- Palermo → Le Kram304 km · quickest by air, 5h 46m · €160–240
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No local-transport research exists yet for Le Kram
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Le Kram. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTunis is a major hub for the country's louage (shared taxi) network.
- Get inTunis is the country's major port and there are ferries from a number of Mediterranean ports including Civitavecchia just outside of Rome, Genoa, Livorno, Naples, Palermo, Trapani and the French port of Marseille.
- Get inMost ferries arrive at La Goulette, 15 minutes from Tunis centre.
- Get aroundThe TGM suburban train line, starting at Tunis Marine station on Lines 1-4, connects to La Goulette (ferries), Sidi Bou Saïd, Carthage and the beaches of Marsa.
- Get aroundOtherwise, louages (shared taxis) are the most flexible of all options.
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Next door to Le Kram
Le Kram is 13 km from Tunis, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Carthagehistorical city in Tunisia1.9 km
- Ancient CarthagePhoenician city-state and empire1.7 km
- Sidi Bou SaidTunisian town4.9 km
- La GouletteTunisian town1.5 km
- La MarsaTunisian town5.2 km
- Siege of Carthagemain engagement of the Third Punic War in which the Roman Republic besieged the Punic city of Carthage in c. 149–146 BCE2.6 km