Kairouan on Foot: Mosques, Aghlabid Cisterns and Medina Workshops
A well-planned day in Kairouan brings together the Great Mosque, the Aghlabid Cisterns and the medina’s streets without mistaking a place of worship for a backdrop.
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The Aghlabid Basins are two connected cisterns built in the 9th century to supply Kairouan. Their open scale reveals the engineering and historic water management behind an inland city.
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What makes it special
- Two connected reservoirs dating from the 9th century.
- Hydraulic infrastructure built to supply Kairouan.
- A contrast with the city’s religious architecture.
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- whc.unesco.org
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- www.sncft.com.tn
- whc.unesco.org
- www.sncft.com.tn
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- Túnez · Wikidata
- Túnez · Wikidata
- Tunisia · World Countries — mledoze
- Tunisia · World Bank Open Data
- Kairouan · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Kairouan · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Kairouan, القبلية الجنوبية, معتمدية القيروان الجنوبية, Kairouan, 3172, Tunisia · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Great Mosque of Kairouan, نهج إبراهيم ابن الأغلب, Old City, Kairouan, الجامع الشمالية, معتمدية القيروان الشمالية, Kairouan, 3100, Tunisia · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
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Profile updated: 02/10/2026