Dougga

Dougga (or Thugga) is a Roman city built on a 65-hectare site, on a hillside surrounded by olive groves in northern Tunisia. The city is marked as one of the most magnificent Roman monuments in North Africa that was announced a Unesco World Heritage site since 1997. The city was built on the site of ancient Thugga, a Numidian settlement, which explains why the streets are so uncharacteristically tangled. What makes it exceptional are well-preserved monuments it encloses which mirrorits rich Punic, Numidian, ancient Roman and Byzantine history. Amongst the most famous monuments at the site are a Punic-Libyan Mausoleum, the Cisterns, the Church of Victoria, the House of Gorgon, the Arch of Septimus Severus, the Capitol, the Theatre, and the Temples of Augistine, of Saturn, of Mercury and of ...Read More