Tunisia
Architecture

 

Tunisia's architectural styles range from magnificent Islamic structures - mosques, minarets, arches, narrow-alley medinas - to military forts (picture above in Sousse), walls and towers, to Roman, and Berber pit houses, but unfortunately the majority of buildings visible on any trip around the country are going to be half-built eyesores of unfinished brick or breeze-block, with steel reinforcements semi-permanently on display.
The reason for this is that banks will not lend money for house development so proud owners expand their properties little by little whenever there are a few spare dinars around. Finishing a small dwelling can easily take ten years.

 

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