Hammamet,« the Arab baths »,situated in the hollow of the eponymous golf, was once composed of two cities, Pupput and Siagu, which got fused in the fifteenth century.
With its luxurious lush gardens, its white houses, its fortified citadel dating from the IX and X centuries, its medina with the medieval topography and its long beaches of fine white sand is now a beamed resort of the Tunisian coast.

