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- Tanis Tunis, the former Tarchiche! These are the names given by our ancestors to the city of Tunis,

- a city that keeps its past beauty and offers its visitors the colours and smells of a civilization and tradition

- still carved between the walls of its palaces.

- In the middle of the street that welcomes passersby with its rows of trees, civilization relives again.

- White facades reveal their charms and attract passersby with goods.

- Boulevard Habib Bourguiba Cafes try to attract passersby

- with a perfumed coffee or a glass of mint tea.

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- From Bab El Bhar, markets attract visitors with their unique fragrances and make them travelling in the middle of one thousand and one works of art.

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- Time stops on the markets to give way to hammers carving works of copper.

- All these copper works

- and these jewels are the result of the work of artisans.

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- Tunis markets are diverse and each market is specialized in one product.

- One finds markets of belghas, fabrics, copper, leather and fez.

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- Manufacturing takes six or seven steps. At the beginning, we give threads of wool to women

- for them to knit and get this result. This is the beginning of the fez,

- it’s called El-Kabbous.

- We send it to Batane which is a plant of the association in Tebourba.

- We use machines as this miniature model

- to felt the wool with warm water and soap.

- The volume of the fez is reduced after felting.

- It comes back hard to us so that we can tint it.

- This tool called Kardoun is used to make it thin and flexible.

- Any fez manufacturer must have a brand to enter the profession,

- he must ask his brand at the board of directors.

- As regards the dye, there are natural and synthetic ones. It is the customer that chooses.

- I am the last person who works the fez, I do the final alterations before the sale.

- I soak it in water and oil and then I put the fabricant's manufacturer and I iron it with this tool.

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- As for the fragrance market it is a place that captivates you with the smell of its perfumes and its incenses.

- It enchants visitors with its traditional smells while they watch the shapes of small bottles.

- In the middle of markets of Tunis medina, the charm and the arts of the East get together. The visitor discovers the secrets of the beautiful past.

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- West alleys of the medina lead you to Zaytuna mosque,

- built by Hassan Ibn Numan in the year 79 AH, that is 732 AD.

- It is the heart of the city and the light towards which crowds of students and believers launch themselves whenever the sound of the adhan and the calls to prayer resound.

- Zaytuna mosque is a leading light for science and knowledge, such as Al-Azhar in Egypt or Quaraouiyine mosque in Fez, Morocco, but it is the oldest one.

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- Zaytuna mosque took the name of the blessed olive tree quoted in the Qur'an.

- Some scholars describe it as the fourth Qibla of Muslims, after the mosques of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.

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- Science and religion classes meet at Zaytuna mosque

- to confirm the Shahada: " There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God."

- This is an Islamic spiritual, scientific and artistic heritage, transmitted from generation to generation in the city.

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- Zaytuna Mosque distinguished itself by forming a group of prestigious scholars.

- Sheikh Abu Al-Hassan Ali Ibn Abi Ziyad was the first to introduce the Muwatta

- and the school of Imam Malik in Tunisia and in North Africa, up to Senegal.

- In this way Sheikh Ali Ben Abi Ziayd taught the Maliki in this mosque

- and several students of Islamic science came here.

- Zaytuna mosque remains a spiritual lighthouse from where the calls to worship are launched.

- It is the lantern of knowledge and architecture lights represented between its walls and columns.

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- The mosque was also the source of many other sciences, such as astronomy, chemistry, physics

- and medicine. The latter is represented by Doctor Sheikh Sekilli.

- Generations of each civilization has left their prints in the mosque.

- Builders of the mosque did not hesitate to use marble, stones and columns dating back to the Roman and Byzantine periods.

- When we contemplate facades and nooks of the mosque, we note the presence of different capitals

- which are said to have been brought from the ancient Byzantine and Roman temples, such as the eagles icons.

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- Zaytuna is a treasure of innovation of Islamic architectural art mixed with Andalusian architecture

- and inspired by sculpted grapes and plants that belonged to the Christian arts.

- Narrow streets lead you from Zaytuna mosque to the smell of incenses

- and perfumes around Sidi Mahrez mausoleum, Patron Saint of Tunis.

- Historians say that Abou Mohamed Ibn Khalaf Mahrez descends from Caliph Abu Bakr As-Siddiq.

- The protector of the city reached high levels in Sufism. He entirely devoted his life to the worship of God.

- Muslims loved Mahrez Ibn Khalaf and elected him sultan of the city.

- Jews were attached to the pious man of Sufism, they were even more appreciative and grateful.

- Mahrez Ibn Khalaf has taught tolerance between religions

- and allowed Jews to live in the fortress of the city to be protected as well as Muslims.

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