Description
For sale a beautiful and charming traditional house (Riad) located in the heart of the Medina of Sousse "The Pearl of the Sahel" Unique in the Medina of Sousse! Completely restored and well furnished (antique pieces). The House is located in a quiet area, good neighborhood, magnificent panoramic view of the Medina and the port of Sousse. It is also close to all amenities (beach, port, bazaar, markets, museums, cafes, restaurants, shops, train station, etc.) A riad (dar Arbi) is a traditional North African dwelling, with an architectural style with Moorish influences and Arab-Andalusian. True treasure of the country, these old palace-like dwellings almost disappeared, before artists or personalities restored them, aware of their importance for Morocco and today for Tunisia. Tourism and the desire to preserve this heritage have allowed the riads to continue, to the delight of lovers of exceptional architecture. Let's discover these splendid buildings hidden behind their mysterious facade. The medina of Sousse, an important commercial and military port under the Aghlabids (800-909), is a typical example of a city from the first centuries of Islam. With its casbah, its ramparts, its medina and its Great Mosque, the Bu Ftata mosque and its typical ribat, both fort and religious building, it was one of the elements of a coastal defense system. Located in the Tunisian Sahel, the Medina of Sousse constitutes a homogeneous architectural ensemble which reflects the Arab-Muslim town planning applied to a coastal city exposed throughout its history to piracy and the dangers coming from the sea. It constitutes, with the medina of Monastir, the only prototype that has come down to us of the coastal military architecture of the first centuries of Islam. Several monuments in the medina testify to this robust, ascetic and imposing architecture, notably the Ribat, the Great Mosque, the Bou Ftata mosque, the Kasbah and the ramparts. The Ribat, both a fort and a religious building, is an eminent example of this type of construction. The Medina is also made up of juxtaposed dwellings divided into districts separated by winding streets and narrow dead ends, a typology in the process of disappearing and threatened by modern life and the evolution of architectural techniques. It also contains a set of unique monuments dating from the Aghlabid and Fatimid eras, which allow us to follow the evolution of Islamic art in its first period.
