North-West · Tunisia
Le Kef
Mountain stronghold — Byzantine kasbah and the silent ruins of Jugurtha's Table.
Le Kef ("the rock") sits at 850 m, perched on a cliff edge with sweeping views across the Algerian border. Its history is layered: Numidian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman.
The kasbah on top of the city — a Byzantine fort later expanded by the Ottomans — and the small but excellent Regional Museum are the must-sees.
Nearby, Jugurtha's Table is a flat-topped mountain plateau accessible by a single carved staircase, where the Numidian king Jugurtha once held off the Roman army.