Le grand bleu is a whole of hotel (hotel dimess and hotel sirocco beach) being located in the town of Mahdia which is a coastal city Tunisian located at 205 kilometers in the south of Tunis. Today the city counts approximately 40,000 inhabitants and is only located at 40km of the airport of Monastir

Presentation city of Mahdia under various topics:

Situation Geographic :

The town of Mahdia is located on a peninsula at 230 km at the South of Tunis. Its geographical situation and its fortifications made it possible the town of play a political and economic part of foreground in the Mediterranean basin until the end of XVIe century.

Historic building:

The principal monuments, in addition to the archeological sites of the peninsula, are protected today - the large Mosque, the fortifications, the ancient port, the Palate El Quaen, large Borj and the punic necropolis. They belong to many testimonys of various civilizations which followed one another Mahdia.

-The marine cemetery

The magic cemetery of Mahdia extends from one bank to another of the headland, its whiteness immaculate. With the sharp yellow of its field of daisies in spring, the deep silhouettes of ramparts which surround it, or the wreck of a boat on the ashy rock of the close creek, this marine cemetery gets, like nowhere elsewhere, an appeasing, a spiritual relaxation.

It Treasure of Mahdia

“To broad of Mahdia, to a few kilometers in the North-East of this prestigious city, of the sponge fishermen announced in 1907 the presence of submerged ancient objects. The layer contained columns, capitals; the excavations made it possible to note that it acted in fact of a whole boat charged with objets d'art for construction with a sumptuous building… what a rich cargo! In addition to the columns, capitals, and superb marble craters, one withdrew from the chiefs of bronze work, such as Agar, the Eros Citharède, Hermes de Dionysos, Dwarf dancing, the Race of the Satire… and the marble sculptures, like this bust of Aphrodite of a completely divine beauty. ” (Mohammed Fantar)

Splendours of Mahdia

In Mahdia, the decoration of the interiors of the dwellings is a true worship, where the “Dar” is an authentic work of art. In the richest residences, in particular with the Street of Hamza, which gathers a dozen very beautiful houses built at last century by the members of the same family, two thirds of the wall of Majless or principal part, are covered with weaves embroidered. The racks out of wooden painted of colors sharp carry a multitude of fine potteries, lances perfumes out of glass blown with the delicate colors, old mirrors with the gilded executives, while the higher part of the walls is decorated with paintings. The cornice and the ceiling are, them, painted floral reasons.

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