Mahdia

Mahdia Governorate · Tunisia

Mahdia, Tunisia
Photo: Jaume Ollé, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to October; June and September avoid peak crowds
Budget
$
Coordinates
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A quiet fishing town on a narrow peninsula, once the tenth-century capital of the Fatimid caliphate. Beyond the massive Skifa el-Kahla gate lies a small weaving medina, a clifftop marine cemetery and some of the finest white-sand beaches on the Tunisian coast.

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