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Tunis
Capital and largest city of Tunisia

Tunis

Tunis is the capital and largest city of Tunisia.

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The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020, it was the third-largest city in the Maghreb region and the fifteenth-largest in the Arab world.

Get in

Getting to Tunis

The major carrier at Tunis-Carthage is Tunisair, serving many destinations. The major western carriers who service Tunis-Carthage are Air France, ITA Airways and Lufthansa, from London, Paris, Rome or Frankfurt. Air Malta offers occasional flights to Tunis from Malta, so you can puddle-jump through the Mediterranean.

See

Worth seeing

Non-Muslims may not enter Islamic monuments such as mosques.

Do

Things to do

Simply wandering around Tunis can be an interesting experience, especially around the medina with its ancient buildings including mosques, gates and market stalls. All types of commodities including slaves used to be traded here, but today's market is mainly that of day-to-day goods, with many local handicrafts.

Eat

Where to eat

Most hotels include breakfast, and some include dinner. There are countless coffee shops with bitter coffee, other drinks and French-style pastries to enjoy, as well as sandwich shops. Count yourself lucky if you find a dish that does not include canned tuna! Know that during Ramadan it's difficult to find an open restaurant during daytime.

  1. 01
    The Corner

    36 Rue de Syrie,.

  2. 02
    Restaurant Ojja Chouchou

    Popular so it may be busy, but the service is fast so people will be coming and going.

  3. 03
    Café de Paris Brasserie

    A good restaurant with a beautiful interior and some outdoor tables.

  4. 04
    Etoile de La Medina

    Welcoming with plentiful amounts of food.

  5. 05
    La Sirène

    You pick the fish from their market and they fry it right there.

How locals move

Getting around Tunis the local way

  • 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.
  • Get aroundThe minivans with 8 passenger seats take off when they are full and therefore run on no particular schedule.
  • Get aroundThis is a suitable transport medium for young people, but definitely not recommended if you have children with you as the minivans can be quite oppressive.

From Wikivoyage: Tunis, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.