Tunisia Way

Performances of some of the finest classical works, set in the candle-lit surroundings of the best-preserved Roman coliseum in the world. Whether you're a music buff or simply curious, you cannot afford to miss this highly romantic setting. Year after year, the festival has attracted big names from the musical world, clearly as eager to play in such amazing surroundings as spectators are to enjoy them.

If the scenery around these parts looks familiar to you, you'd be right. George Lucas' Star Wars were not filmed a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, but in the Seventies, and in the strange lunar landscape of the Tunisian desert.The ghortas (grain stones) created by weathering resemble huge mushrooms, and the inhabitants carve their dwellings out of the sandy rock.

Although this event is intended as Tunisia's premier international arts festival, its most interesting components include examples of fusion between local, more traditional forms of music and dance and more mainstream, international styles. Particular examples include forms of Tunisian music mixed with jazz. Traditionalists, however, can enjoy productions of many works, including international theatre and ballet performances in the well-preserved Roman amphitheatre

The main theme of this demonstration is the cultural heritage of the “Mrazig”, which was at the origin of the nomads practitioner transhumance in the vast Sahara. 

 The standard program of the festival includes/understands:

• reconstitutions of the traditional marriage and its procession of ceremonies.