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 .Ksours festival takes place every year in the Saharian Ksours, a high spot of civilization and history of the Tunisian south and invites us to discover the urban monuments, the customs and the agitated history of this civilization wich could preserve its traditions and joyous songs during centuries. |
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The Hammamet «Orange»
Festival (April) Celebrating the orange trees blossoming. In this apportunity, the costum consists of distilling the oil of orange-trees flowers and organizing the market of it and of all the derived products Pilgrimage at «The Ghriba» Synagogue in Djerba (May) In this religious centre colled the «Ghriba», the oldest synagogue in Africa, a pilgrimage takes place for the Hebrew diaspora coming from all over the world The Arab thoroughbred horse Festival of Meknassi-Sidi Bouzid (June) It take place in Meknassi small city, where you can appreciate, during the equestrian shows, horse-parade and other performance representing the important cultural and social dimension of the Arab thoroughbred horse which was dressed in at the Islamic period of the invested Maghreb a mainly important religious consecration. The Hawking Festival (Haw hunting) in El Haouaria (June) |
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 Located at the
very end of the Cap Bon peak top, El Hawaria is the main hunting area of
the hawk (sparrowhawk). It concerns a thousand-year-old tradition which
dates back to the Carthaginian period, when Ghar-El-Kebir quarries at 2
kms from El Haouaria were used, so as to extract the stones of Carthage
during the Punic period.
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Tabarka Jazz Festival
(July) If Tabarka was known for the coral fishing, for the rocky needles eroded by the sea, thanks to its Roman remains as well as its Genoese fort, today famous all over the world for its Tabarka Jazz Festival, which in its turn enriches the various tourist products in the region : green tourism, sport and salutary tourism (trekkingt, horse riding, bathing, under-sea fishing) and cultural tourism. El Jem International Festival of symphonic Music (August) Every year, El Jem city, located at 65 kms from Sousse city, invites you to listen to the music of Mozard, Shumann, Haendel, Lizt, Bach, Gluck, Vivaldi, interpreted by European prestigious symphonic orchestra bands, in the best preserved amphitheatre of the Roman civilization ...Something unusual. Carthage and Hammamet International Festival (July-August) During the sweet night of the Tunisian Summer, you can attend in Carthage and Hammamet various open-air performance, in Carthage Roman theatre as well as in the Mediterranean Cultural Center «Dar Sebastien» in Hammamet Regattas « Roads of Jasmine » (Août) It concerns a sport, a maritime and cultural event which implies two Mediterraneancities: Toulon (France) and Bizera(Tunisia) Carthage Cinema and Theatre Days (October) It is the most important apportunity for the large family of the Maghreb-International theatre of Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and Middle-East countries to present a lively image of their art to the large public. Tozeur Oases Festival (November) |
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 It embodies the desire of the south dwellers to keep their lively culture and the wealth of their traditions. It concerns an apportunity to discover the art of living in the oases; parades evoking the rites and the customs of the region are scheduled, with nomad's caravans, wedding ceremonies, and «fantasia». It is also expected to attend the dates crop in the oases. |
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Douz Sahara de Festival (December) This festival has taken place every year since 1967. It invites you to discover the happiness of the village dwellers welcoming through ancestral dance shows, camels fights, traditional weddings with customs and berber adornments, hunting with the greyhound and the pure race «Slugui» raised by the desert tribes. |