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Roots Earth in Sousse: audio stories about 40 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Sousse, Tunisia, in Africa. The Sousse stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Sousse, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: sousse.md

The 40 places in Sousse with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Ribat of Sousse
  2. Great Mosque of Sousse
  3. Medina of Sousse
  4. Kasbah of Sousse
  5. Sousse Archaeological Museum
  6. Catacombs of the Good Shepherd
  7. Khalef al-Fata Tower
  8. Dar Essid Museum
  9. Bou Ftata Mosque
  10. Souks of the Medina
  11. Nador Watchtower
  12. Sofra Cistern
  13. Port El Kantaoui
  14. Boujaafar Beach
  15. Place des Martyrs
  16. Medina Ramparts of Sousse
  17. Sousse Olympic Stadium
  18. Marina of El Kantaoui
  19. Friguia Park
  20. Hammam Sousse
  21. El Kantaoui Golf Course
  22. Amphitheatre of El Jem
  23. Great Mosque of Kairouan
  24. Hergla
  25. Mahdia
  26. Ribat of Monastir
  27. Tunisian Sahel
  28. Souk El Ahad (Sunday Market)
  29. Avenue Habib Bourguiba
  30. Sousse Corniche
  31. Place Farhat Hached
  32. Khezama
  33. Sahloul
  34. Sidi Abdelhamid Cemetery
  35. Akouda
  36. Boujaafar Cafe Strip
  37. Sousse Fish Market
  38. University of Sousse Quarter
  39. Sousse Fishing Port
  40. Kalaa Kebira

Is there an audio guide for Ribat of Sousse?

Yes. Ribat of Sousse has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 40 Sousse places in the app, at 35.8277, 10.6388. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Sousse

Open Roots Earth and choose Sousse. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 40 places in Sousse, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 40 places in Sousse, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Ribat of Sousse

Coordinates
35.8277, 10.6388
In one line
The Ribat of Sousse is a fortified Aghlabid monastery completed in 821, where warrior-monks once guarded the coast. Its stone enclosure, prayer hall, and cylindrical watchtower rank among the best preserved in the Maghreb.

2. Great Mosque of Sousse

Coordinates
35.82694444, 10.63972222
In one line
The Great Mosque of Sousse, built in 851 under the Aghlabid amir Muhammad the First, is a fortress-like house of prayer. Its crenellated walls, corner bastions, and severe plain courtyard make it a landmark of early western Islamic design.

3. Medina of Sousse

Coordinates
35.82777778, 10.63861111
In one line
The Medina of Sousse is a walled Aghlabid old town founded in the 9th century on ancient Hadrumetum. Ringed by ramparts more than two kilometers long, it preserves a Ribat, Great Mosque, kasbah, and lively souks, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

4. Kasbah of Sousse

Coordinates
35.8235, 10.636
In one line
The Kasbah of Sousse crowns the medina's highest point, built in 844 CE. This fortress incorporates the great Khalef watchtower of 859 and today houses the Sousse Archaeological Museum and its renowned Roman mosaics.

5. Sousse Archaeological Museum

Coordinates
35.82194444, 10.63527778
In one line
The Sousse Archaeological Museum, founded in 1951 inside the medina's kasbah, holds Tunisia's second largest mosaic collection after the Bardo. Its galleries display Roman masterpieces from ancient Hadrumetum, Punic stelae, and early Christian art.

6. Catacombs of the Good Shepherd

Coordinates
35.82, 10.63
In one line
The Catacombs of the Good Shepherd are early Christian burial galleries beneath Sousse, used from Roman times into the 4th century. The Good Shepherd section alone stretches around 1. 6 kilometers and holds some 6,000 tombs cut into its walls.

7. Khalef al-Fata Tower

Coordinates
35.8231, 10.635
In one line
The Khalef al-Fata Tower is the great square watchtower of Sousse, raised by the Aghlabids in 859 with the city walls. Rising from the kasbah on the medina's summit, it served as a beacon signaling ships, the town, and inland watchtowers.

8. Dar Essid Museum

Coordinates
35.8271, 10.633
In one line
Tucked into the medina of Sousse, this preserved aristocratic house turned private museum recreates the daily life of a wealthy Tunisian family across the 18th and 19th centuries, room by furnished room, around a tiled inner courtyard.

9. Bou Ftata Mosque

Coordinates
35.8262, 10.6402
In one line
Small, austere, and very old, this Aghlabid mosque was raised between 838 and 841, making it one of the earliest dated mosques in the Maghreb. A modest prayer hall and an inscribed frieze are its quiet treasures.

10. Souks of the Medina

Coordinates
35.8273, 10.6395
In one line
The trading heart of the old town, these covered lanes still group their crafts by trade, textiles, leather, spices, and metalwork, in vaulted Aghlabid-era passages where artisans work and bargain as they have for centuries inside the UNESCO-listed medina.

11. Nador Watchtower

Coordinates
35.8278, 10.639
In one line
Rising from the southeast corner of the Ribat of Sousse, this cylindrical 9th-century tower served as a lookout and likely a lighthouse. A spiral staircase climbs inside to sweeping views over the medina, the harbor, and the sea.

12. Sofra Cistern

Coordinates
35.8245, 10.6345
In one line
Hidden beneath the medina of Sousse, this vaulted underground cistern once formed part of the old town's water-supply system. Its dim, arched chambers stored the precious water that sustained a fortified coastal city built on the ancient site of Hadrumetum.

13. Port El Kantaoui

Coordinates
35.894, 10.598
In one line
Built in 1979 about ten kilometers north of Sousse, this purpose-designed marina resort dresses a modern tourist harbor in white-and-blue Arab-Andalusian style. Its artificial port holds around 340 berths for yachts amid arcaded streets and palm-lined quays.

14. Boujaafar Beach

Coordinates
35.833, 10.639
In one line
Sousse's long city beach stretches in fine pale sand along the corniche just north of the medina. Backed by cafés, hotels, and a busy promenade on the Gulf of Hammamet, it is the seaside heart of local summer life.

15. Place des Martyrs

Coordinates
35.828, 10.64
In one line
Place des Martyrs is a busy civic square at the edge of the medina, framed by the old Aghlabid ramparts. Named for the martyrs of Tunisia's independence struggle, it serves as the main gateway into the historic walled town.

16. Medina Ramparts of Sousse

Coordinates
35.8285, 10.6378
In one line
The Medina Ramparts of Sousse form a fortified circuit roughly 2. 2 kilometers long, built by the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9th century. Their stout walls, square turrets, and gates enclose the UNESCO-listed old town and its early Islamic monuments.

17. Sousse Olympic Stadium

Coordinates
35.82333333, 10.61277778
In one line
Sousse Olympic Stadium opened in 1973 and is home to the football club Étoile du Sahel. Expanded over the years to around 50,000 seats, it has hosted Africa Cup of Nations matches and remains the city's great arena of sport.

18. Marina of El Kantaoui

Coordinates
35.893, 10.5965
In one line
The Marina of El Kantaoui is the heart of Port El Kantaoui, a purpose-built resort opened in 1979 about 10 kilometers north of Sousse. Its artificial harbor holds some 340 berths for yachts, ringed by white-and-blue arcades, palms, and quayside cafés.

19. Friguia Park

Coordinates
36.20444444, 10.42333333
In one line
Friguia Park, opened in 2000 near Bouficha between Tunis and Sousse, was Tunisia's first zoo. Spread over 36 hectares with an African theme, it is home to around 400 animals across 62 species, from lions and giraffes to flamingos and crocodiles.

20. Hammam Sousse

Coordinates
35.85888889, 10.59388889
In one line
Hammam Sousse is a coastal town just north of Sousse with around 47,000 residents. Its old core at El Ksar dates to the Aghlabid era, and it is the birthplace of former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

21. El Kantaoui Golf Course

Coordinates
35.8895, 10.5935
In one line
The El Kantaoui Golf Course is part of the Port El Kantaoui resort, a purpose-built tourist center opened in 1979 about 10 kilometers north of Sousse. Set among the resort's hotels and marina, its fairways are a fixture of Tunisia's Mediterranean golf scene.

22. Amphitheatre of El Jem

Coordinates
35.29638889, 10.70694444
In one line
Rising from a flat plain, the Amphitheatre of El Jem is one of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres anywhere. Begun around 238, it seated approximately 35,000 spectators and remains a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.

23. Great Mosque of Kairouan

Coordinates
35.6814, 10.1036
In one line
Founded in 670 by Uqba ibn Nafi and rebuilt under the Aghlabids in 836, the Great Mosque of Kairouan is among the oldest places of worship in the Islamic world. Its minaret is the oldest still standing.

24. Hergla

Coordinates
36.03333333, 10.5
In one line
A small white town on a clifftop above the Gulf of Hammamet, Hergla rose on the Roman site of Horrea Caelia. Known for esparto basketry and its blue-trimmed houses, it keeps the quiet feel of a working fishing village.

25. Mahdia

Coordinates
35.5, 11.06666667
In one line
Founded in 916 as the first Fatimid capital, Mahdia occupies a narrow peninsula reached through the massive Skifa el-Kahla gate. Its old town holds a rebuilt Fatimid mosque, a rock-cut harbour, and a long tradition of silk weaving.

26. Ribat of Monastir

Coordinates
35.7775, 10.833
In one line
Founded in 796 by Harthama ibn Ayan, the Ribat of Monastir is among the oldest fortified monasteries in North Africa. Warrior-monks once guarded the coast from its watchtower; today it houses a museum of Islamic art.

27. Tunisian Sahel

Coordinates
35.93333333, 10.53333333
In one line
The Tunisian Sahel is the coastal heart of central-eastern Tunisia, spanning the Sousse, Monastir, and Mahdia governorates. Famed for vast olive groves and a long maritime history, it gave the country its first president, Habib Bourguiba.

28. Souk El Ahad (Sunday Market)

Coordinates
35.819, 10.623
In one line
Souk El Ahad is Sousse's sprawling Sunday market, where locals come for clothes, household goods, produce, and bargains of every kind. Sprawling far beyond the medina's old covered bazaars, it is the city's weekly ritual of trade and crowds.

29. Avenue Habib Bourguiba

Coordinates
35.8295, 10.6385
In one line
Sousse's main civic boulevard runs from the medina walls toward the sea, lined with cafés, shops and palms. Named for Tunisia's founding president, it forms the busy spine of the colonial-era new town.

30. Sousse Corniche

Coordinates
35.841, 10.623
In one line
Sousse's seafront promenade runs along the Gulf of Hammamet beside Boujaafar Beach, edged with cafés, palms and hotels. It is the city's open-air gathering place, busiest at sunset when families come out to walk.

31. Place Farhat Hached

Coordinates
35.8302, 10.6378
In one line
A busy public square near the medina and port, named for Farhat Hached, the Tunisian trade unionist assassinated in 1952. It serves as a central crossroads where the old town, the new city and the seafront meet.

32. Khezama

Coordinates
35.8525, 10.608
In one line
A modern residential and seaside district in the north of Sousse, between the city centre and Port El Kantaoui. Khezama mixes apartment blocks and villas with hotels and beachfront, part of the city's late-twentieth-century expansion.

33. Sahloul

Coordinates
35.843, 10.597
In one line
A modern district in western Sousse, known above all for Sahloul University Hospital, a major teaching hospital tied to the University of Sousse. It is a planned residential and medical quarter of the expanding contemporary city.

34. Sidi Abdelhamid Cemetery

Coordinates
35.8155, 10.6285
In one line
A Muslim cemetery in the Sidi Abdelhamid locality on the southern edge of Sousse, named after a local saint. Its plain whitewashed graves reflect Tunisian funerary tradition, a quiet counterpoint to the busy modern city.

35. Akouda

Coordinates
35.87138889, 10.56972222
In one line
A small town a few kilometres north of Sousse on Route nationale 1, with its own great mosque and minaret. Home to about 32,000 people, Akouda blends an old Sahel village core with growth from the nearby city.

36. Boujaafar Cafe Strip

Coordinates
35.8355, 10.636
In one line
Along the Boujaafar seafront, Sousse's café strip lines the corniche where the city meets the Mediterranean. Locals and visitors gather here for coffee, mint tea, and shisha, watching the long beach and the Gulf of Hammamet.

37. Sousse Fish Market

Coordinates
35.8268, 10.642
In one line
Near the walls of the medina, Sousse's fish market gathers the morning's Mediterranean catch onto crushed ice.

38. University of Sousse Quarter

Coordinates
35.827, 10.595
In one line
The University of Sousse, founded in 2004 from the former University of the Center, anchors a student quarter of faculties, cafés, and bookshops. Tens of thousands of students fill its medical, engineering, and music schools, giving this part of the city a youthful energy.

39. Sousse Fishing Port

Coordinates
35.8235, 10.644
In one line
Sousse's fishing port shelters the small boats that work the Gulf of Hammamet. Beside the larger commercial harbor that links central Tunisia to the sea, fishermen mend nets, unload the catch, and tie up at quays where the city's maritime life carries on each day.

40. Kalaa Kebira

Coordinates
35.8678, 10.5375
In one line
Northwest of Sousse, Kalaa Kebira is a town of more than 60,000 people known across Tunisia as the capital of olives. Built on the Roman site of Gurza and chartered as a commune in 1921, it lives by olive groves, oil mills, and agriculture.

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