After restoration work, the historic “Tourbet-el-Bey” monument has been closed for 11 years, was officially reopened on Friday February 24, 2023 in the presence of the Najla Bouden Romedhane government’s heads, accompanied by the Minister of Cultural Affairs Hayet Guettat Guermazi, of the Governor of Tunis Kamel Feki, of the mayor of the city of Tunis Souad Abderrahim as well as several representatives Installation of heritage and cultural promotion (AMVPPC) and the National Heritage Institute (INP).
The government’s heading has, on this occasion, highlighted the importance of better exploiting it by integrating it into the tourist and cultural circuit of the Medina of Tunis.
The reopening of this historic monument, which constitutes the largest funeral monument in Tunis, comes after work of catering, maintenance, conservation and museum development undertaken by an INP and AMVPPC team and with an overall cost of almost 120 thousand dinars.
The site was carried out in order to make this monument of burial emblematic of our history, a building accessible offshore.
Witness to the history of the Husseinite dynasty and from all over the time, ranging from 1705 to the proclamation of the Tunisian Republic on July 25, 1957, Tourbet-el-Bey, was designed as a family burial, where there are many tombs of princes and princesses Husseinites.
Classified as a historic monument, Tourbet-el-Bey AA was restored many times and transformed into a museum.
