At 35 kilometers from the capital city are the ruins of ancient Carthage, founded in 814 BC. e., the capital of one of the great states of antiquity. There was a center of Phoenician trading empire, which included almost all the Mediterranean trade routes converged here through the Sahara and West Asia, there thundered famous battle Punic wars.

Most of the surviving buildings dates back to the I century - Roman period and during the excavation of the hill Beers have been found since the structures of the Phoenicians.

Exposition of the National Museum of Carthage is located in a former convent. Here you can see the stone sarcophagi Roman and Punic periods, Roman mosaics, sculptures and a collection of ceramics, vases and funerary gravestones.

Archaeological Park Roman villas occupies the eastern slope of the hill Odeon. Here you can see the III century Roman house, poultry house to call home because of a mosaic depicting birds. Nearby are fragments of the III century Odeon built under Septimius Severus for poetry competitions, and the theater of II century, where now are the performances of the international festival.

Near the sea Archaeological Park is a term of Antoninus Pius. Here you can see the little coffins for the burial of children sacrificed to the god Baal; Underground Cistern, the remains of houses with fragments of mosaics; the ruins of the enormous term built during the reign of Antoninus.
  From later periods were the ruins of numerous Byzantine churches, the Cathedral Sep-Louis (1890) in the back aisle of which is placed the National Museum, the Cathedral of St. Cyprian and the Museum Lavizheri.