Bizerta

“The casbah has a square tower on its façade and a rounded gateway leading to the port, with the small Ksibah castle just on the other side.

"At the end of the dock, partially destroyed today, it joins the sandy beach. A small watchtower with a small structure on top serves as a lighthouse for the inner port. At the end of the dock, where the old port’s canal ended, is a door with a horseshoe-shaped archway. The wood is covered in iron plates, like the rest of the gateways, and the turn of the arch is made of bricks.

In the casbah, with its double entry, are fragments of old marble columns rising up, pieces of ancient Roman ruins. As such, ruins are found atop other ruins: the remains of Antiquity, Arab domination, the Spanish era, and modern civilisation.”

Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria, Bizerte, J. Rothschild, Paris, 1900 (Prague, 1897)