Bizerta

“We return to Bizerte and still have a few days left to rest in the magnificent Bay of Sebra. Afterwards, we’ll head west, saying our last goodbye to the brave guardians of the semaphore tower. Andrea Neptuni foams up the sea, and Galita kindly smiles at us. We’re heading towards high sea, but we shout to Bizerte: “Farewell, see you soon!” And we’ll end these lines citing a few words by Baron Combourg who, in a speech at the Society for Colonial Studies, said: ‘Tunisia is the jewel of North Africa… It has a priceless treasure: the port at Bizerte, the prettiest in the Mediterranean!’”

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