🌅 At sunset
Pine-nut tea at Café des NattesAtop Sidi Bou Said, over the white rooftops and the Gulf of Tunis.
✦ Your self-guided tour
Tunis
Discover the city at your own pace, with your route and your trip essentials in one place.
5 stops · about 3 h 46 · audio guide12 languages
Highlights
5 stops · about 3 h 46 · audio guide
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Tunis: your route
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5 stops · about 3 h 46 · audio guideTransport on the route: about TND 30.80
Included: the full route, audio guide in 12 languages and the travel tools. Not included: museum and monument tickets, transport tickets.
💡 Good to know in Tunis
Practical tips before you step out.
Luggage
Leave luggage at the airport left-luggage desk or a partner storage point on the route (marked ★). Carry only essentials and your passport.
Internet
Outside EU roaming: buy an eSIM before you travel or a prepaid SIM at an official carrier shop (bring your passport).
Payments
The dinar (TND) can only be exchanged inside the country: keep exchange receipts. Cash for the medina, taxis and cafés.
Tipping
Tip 10% in restaurants and round up in taxis (insist on the meter).
Water
Drink bottled or filtered water and avoid ice of doubtful origin; check that bottles are sealed.
Safety
Use app or hotel taxis, keep your phone away in the street and avoid walking after dark in empty areas. Medina sellers can be pushy: a firm no is enough.
Sockets
Type C/E sockets, 230 V.
Toilets
Toilets in malls, museums and cafés; some public ones charge a little and paper goes in the bin, not the bowl.
Mosques
Cover shoulders and knees in the medina and at monuments; non-Muslims may not enter mosques, except where tours exist (Hassan II).
ⓘ Practical information compiled from official and public sources in October 2026. Not yet checked on the ground in this city — if something has changed, use “Report a problem”.
Safety in Tunis
Emergency numbers, common scams and how to get help. Free for everyone.
Emergency197
Hospital and pharmacy search around the city centre — share your location for results near you.
Look for: Pharmacie · صيدلية
Show this to someone nearby
Au secours ! J'ai besoin d'aide. Appelez la police ou une ambulance, s'il vous plaît.
Common scams and risks
Friendly "guides"
A helpful stranger offers to show you around and you end up in a carpet or souvenir shop. A polite no is enough.
Pickpockets
Crowded trams, metros and queues are their workplace. Bag in front and zipped; phone never in a back pocket.
Taxis
Use official taxi ranks or apps with a fixed fare. Turn down rides offered inside the airport arrivals hall.
Dress and respect
In mosques, souks and public buildings cover shoulders and knees; in mosques women cover their hair. Away from beaches, avoid very short or see-through clothes.
👜 Watch your wallet in
Medina · Avenida Habib Bourguiba · TGM
🌙 At night, take extra care in
Medina after sunset
Keep a photo of your passport on your phone, carry just one card and some cash, and stick to busy, well-lit streets.
ⓘ Practical information compiled from official and public sources in October 2026. Not yet checked on the ground in this city — if something has changed, use “Report a problem”.
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🆕 Today in Tunis
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Experiences in Tunis
Moments, fun and events, picked for you.
Your interests
🕐 Flexible — check opening times
The ruins of CarthageThe seaside Antonine Baths and Byrsa Hill, where Rome destroyed Carthage.
🕐 Flexible — check opening times
Coffee in the medinaA Turkish coffee or tea in a vaulted traditional café, with water pipes all around.
📅 At the weekend
Beach and brik in La MarsaWhere Tunisians go to the beach at weekends, with brik and ice cream on the seafront.
🌙 At night
Live maloufTunisian Arab-Andalusian music in medina houses and at the Municipal Theatre.
🏛️ History & culture of Tunis
How the city came to be, in a few minutes of reading.
Tunis (Arabic: تونس, ) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. 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 (after Casablanca and Algiers) and the fifteenth-largest in the Arab world.
Situated on the Gulf of Tunis, behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette (Ḥalq il-Wād), the city extends along the coastal plain and the hills that surround it. At its core lies the Medina, a World Heritage Site.
Read the full history
Tunis (Arabic: تونس, ) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. 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 (after Casablanca and Algiers) and the fifteenth-largest in the Arab world.
Situated on the Gulf of Tunis, behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette (Ḥalq il-Wād), the city extends along the coastal plain and the hills that surround it. At its core lies the Medina, a World Heritage Site. East of the Medina, through the Sea Gate (also known as the Bab el Bhar and the Porte de France), begins the modern part of the city called "Ville Nouvelle", traversed by the grand Avenue Habib Bourguiba (often referred to by media and travel guides as "the Tunisian Champs-Élysées"), where the colonial-era buildings provide a clear contrast to smaller, older structures. Further east by the sea lie the suburbs of Carthage, La Marsa, and Sidi Bou Said.
As the capital of the country, Tunis is the focus of Tunisian political and administrative life and also the center of the country's commercial and cultural activities.
💬 What travellers say about Tunis
Tips, experiences and questions from people who've been there.