Sidi Jadidi archaeological site description and photos - Tunisia: Hammamet (Topic)

Sidi Jadidi archaeological site description and photos - Tunisia: Hammamet. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Sidi Jadidi.

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At 50 km from the city of Tunisia and not far from Hammamet (in the Yasmine Hammamet area) there is a former Roman settlement dating back to the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Now this ancient city is located on the territory of the archaeological zone of Sidi Jedidi and is open to the public.

This city was very developed. On its territory, archaeologists discovered Roman villas with colorful mosaics, which at that time were available only to the nobility, baths and other stone buildings. An ancient Roman road was also excavated, which ran from Carthage itself. From these buildings it can be judged that a trade route from Hammamet passed through the settlement, or that this city itself was a large trading place.

Historians, studying even more ancient surviving foundations, suggest that that on the site of this city there was once a Phoenician settlement, founded in the 1st century AD. When this territory was captured by Roman troops, Phoenician houses were gradually rebuilt, in their place stone ones were built, which have survived to this day. The Romans built a temple and even a small amphitheater in this settlement. In the XIV century, the entire building was plundered, and then destroyed by Catalan pirates. Since then, the city has been practically deserted and no buildings have been restored.

Next to the remains of buildings in the Sidi Jedidi zone, there are burials of the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. History buffs will surely be interested in the ancient tombs as well as the catacombs, some of which have survived to this day almost intact.

On the territory of the archaeological zone, you can walk along the ruins of ancient streets,

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