Ribat description and photos - Tunisia: Monastir (Topic)

Ribat description and photos - Tunisia: Monastir. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Ribat.

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Ribat (translated from Arabic as "hotel") is a fortress built in the 8th century. Once she defended the inhabitants of the city of Monastir from Christian attacks. A lighthouse and a high watch tower were attached to the fortress, on which monk soldiers were on duty. Ribat was built over the course of many centuries, constantly building on and strengthening. After one of these expansions, the area of the monastery was about 4,000 square meters. m. The main part of the buildings was erected from the 8th to the 19th centuries.

In the middle of the fortress there is a small courtyard, where soldiers could go from their rooms. Through a huge number of passages and passages in the walls, which have arisen due to the constant rebuilding of Ribat, and similar to a labyrinth, you can go to the watchtower, erected like all other bastions in the 17th-18th centuries, from where there is a beautiful view of Monastir and the sea.

In the oldest part of the fortress, in the former prayer rooms, there is an Islamic Museum, created in 1958, which contains manuscripts, pottery and glass things made by monks. One of the most interesting exhibits of the museum is an astrolabe made in 927.

Feature films on historical themes have been shot in the fortress many times.

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