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Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud

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The Cave dwellings and the world of the ksour of southern Tunisia represent vernacular building types in the pre-Saharan zone. The ksour are collective granaries, to store provisions and food reserves in sufficient quantity to be able to face long periods of drought. They were also meeting places for the semi-nomadic Amazigh people.

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Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud tunisien (ID: 6444)
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First published: 25/05/22.

Svein Elias

Habitat Troglodytique Et Le Monde Des Ksour Du Sud

Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud (On tentative list)

Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud by Svein Elias

This is fun! This is great!
A new this interesting TWHS is just fantastic! They appear unique and different! Although the site description can tell us that there are other troglodyte habitats sites and thus not unique, it also says the collective granaries are.

After visiting 8 of the 22 troglodyte habitats in the southern part of Tunisia, we found mainly granaries. Some easily accessible and other more remote, and by far the more remote ones are the most interesting.

Our first one was in the town of Médenine (lower right picture). Except some unwanted odd people hanging around and a private museum inside the ksour that didn’t really appeal, it was good example. The ksour itself is big and contains a two-three story building complex with twisted and rough stairs, certainly interesting.

The second one, EI Mourabitibe or Kasr Mrabtine (upper left and right picture), was fantastic. Located alone on a barren ridge with only a rough path, it attracts few visitors. It’s a 20-minute hike up the rocky and desert-like hill to the gate of this “fortress”. Entering gives you immediately the feeling of how it must have been back in the old times. The “inside of a fortress” is a three-four story building complex again with these impossible cartoon-like stairs, and you can visualize the granaries filled with merchandise and a vivid community of people doing business the Bedouin way. It must have been an experience! The building complex has no straight line, nothing …

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First published: 15/04/22.

Zoë Sheng

Habitat Troglodytique Et Le Monde Des Ksour Du Sud

Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud (On tentative list)

Habitat troglodytique et le monde des ksour du Sud by Zoë Sheng

Troglodytes aren't too unique, cave dwellings are already inscribed. I don't see how much more the ones in Tunisia can offer but it does make for a great visit. The area has lots of them and they are not tourist museums but still in used by families today. The description calls them storage and granaries but they appear to be just homes. You can follow signs to visit one, pay the family some money to be shown around and try not to feel like you just intruded their lives, because it sure felt that way on my visit. If you can't find one you can always ask in town. I think I also saw one there that seemed more touristy but I had already visited two by then so I was good to continue on my journey.

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