Sahel · Tunisia
Monastir
Bourguiba's birthplace — ribat, marina and Skanes airport beach strip.
Monastir is a coastal city of brilliant white limestone — the ribat, the Bourguiba mausoleum and the medina walls all glow in the afternoon sun.
It was the birthplace of Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia's first president, and the elaborate family mausoleum on the edge of the medina is one of the country's most distinctive modern monuments.
Skanes, the resort strip between Monastir and Sousse, sits next to Monastir-Habib-Bourguiba International Airport — making the area one of Tunisia's most accessible beach destinations from Europe.