According to its website (www.www....) the national Bardo Museum in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, is a jewel of Tunisian heritage and has the largest collection of mosaics in the world.
While on holiday down the coast in Hammamet, Heather and I took the local bus to Tunis and stayed overnight at a hotel in the city centre. In the morning, we took the metro to visit the Bardo Museum. We wandered through the galleries looking at the many ancient artifacts from the prehistoric, Hellenic, Carthaginian and Roman eras.
The museum contains the largest collection of mosaics in the world. The Roman era mosaics are very impressive. It must have taken a great deal of time, expertise and patience to bring together all the thousands of pieces of mosaic tiles.
The Bardo Museum is open six days each week but is closed on Mondays. The entrance charge is very reasonable at only 13 Tunisian Dinars per person, for non-residents.
Its easy to get to the Bardo Museum by public transport. While, Heather and I do speak some French and a little Arabic, we found everyone very helpful and even if you don't speak the language you should give it a go. We took the Tunis Metro on Line 4 from the Barcelone station to the Bardo stop. The museum is only a couple of hundred metres walk up the road from the metro. The tickets for the metro are relatively very cheap; one Tunisian Dinar per trip per person, which is 25p/ 25 Euro cents.
Heather and I enjoyed taking a break from the bustling city and we spent couple of hours admiring the exhibits and enjoying a coffee and pastry in the museum café.
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