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Period : Aghlabid Dynasty (800 - 846)
Construction date : Century 9 (859) Ad
State : Preserved
Address: At the center of Sousse
وسط مدينة سوسة

Another must-stop attraction in Sousse is the city's medina which encloses numerous religious and historical monuments that tell of the city's long history . You can get there through place des Martyrs . Look at the 2 . 25km-high walls of the old medina and get a view of how the Aghlabids fortified the place with solid square turrets in AD 859 . The walls were laid on the foundations of the city's original Byzantine walls . Enclosed within these walls are 24 mosques (12 for men and 12 for women) among other numerous significant monuments . It is said that the area was established after the Allied destroyed some parts of the wall in 1943 .