Lieu Place of excellence of Tunisian tourism, seaside resort which attracts at the same time thousands from abroad and Tunisian with the mounting of freshness, of "doltce vita", but also of culture, Hammamet is a successful example of the change of a small quiet city in in place with strong tourist concentration.

Its hotels which skirt the coast are decorated beautiful gardens and their low height does not carry not reached to the landscape. Olive groves and orange groves hide fort pretty villas always white.

Colonie Roman colony in 179 after J.C., Hammamet preserves few traces of its past. It was called Hammamet by the Arabs (hammam wants to say bath). Located between two sheltered bays, the headland was strengthened into 904. Norman, Arab, Corsairs and Spaniards, occupied the city the ones after the others.

Under French protectorate, Hammamet becomes the refuge of the rich, as well as the place of meeting of large intellectuals and artists like André Gide or Paul Klee. George Sebastien, a Rumanian millionaire, made build in his sumptuous property which skirts the sea, a residence which shelters today the arts centre of Hammamet and to which was added by the Tunisian State in 1959, a theatre built on the ancient model, which levels each year of its spectacles of music, dances and theatre Tunisian and international.

Médina is a place more interesting bus, bordered on a side by the sea from where one can admire the gulf, and other by a marine cemetery, it is surrounded by ramparts and shelters in its mazes, in addition to the sumptuous residences of famous hosts foreigner, a pleasant souk of traditional objects.