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Page 1 of 2  Tataouine is a city located in southern Tunisia at. It is the capital of the Tataouine Governorate.
The district is famous for its ksour (fortified Berber granaries) including the picturesque Ksar Ouled Soltane, CheniniDouiret. These abandoned settlements feature beautiful vaulted adobe buildings, or ghorfas. and
June 27, 1931 a meteorite of the rare achondrite type impacted at
Tataouine, about 12 kg of fragments were found.
The mineral of this
meteorite was named Diogenite.
Tataouine's name became famous when George Lucas,
who filmed the original Star Wars film in various locations of Tunisia
(for example, the Lars Homestead, filmed at the Hotel Sidi Driss in
Matmata), named Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine.
Tataouine appeared in the end of the movie The
X-Files as Foum Tataouine, where an extraterrestrial viral experiment
facility was held.
Deep south centreThe deep south of Tunisia offers little for the average traveller, and Tataouine is no big exception from this. The architecture is quite ordinary, but the city comes alive on Mondays and Thursdays for the market. While you stay a day or two in Tataouine, a walk out to the nearby kasr is nice. From the kasr, the best view over whole Tataouine is waiting for you. But the buildings of the kasr are quite old, and people entering should watch their steps. Around town
Being the name-giver to a plant in George
Lucas' Star Wars universe, one might expect Tataouine to something
quite spectacular. But it is not. The town is new and stripped of
everything from its centuries of history. |
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