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Sousse Holiday Accommodation
Sousse A tourist city called "the pearl of the Sahel", Sousse has been capital and port city since antiquity and one that has always exported oil, wool, alfa and even salt from its rich lands. Sousse boasts of 20 centuries of existence without interruption, changing only its name: first Hadrumetum, the Romanized Phoenician name (Hadramaout), then Hunericopolis under the Vandals, Justianeapolis under the Byzantines and finally Sousse under the Arabs.
These last, after having razed the city in retaliation against the population who resisted their siege for two months, reconstructed it beginning at the close of the 7th century. Today, the Arab medina remains closed within its confines as if to protect the treasures accumulated over the centuries, especially during the 9th, a prosperous one for all North Africa. The waves of the nearby sea washed the eastern Walls (859) where the port was located.
