Café du Marabout in the Souk Ettrouk
La Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia
Institut Supérieur d’Histoire Contemporaine de la Tunisie
Early 19th century
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This copy of a beautiful watercolour from Charles Lallemand's book Tunis et ses Environs shows the Café el-Mourabit in the Turkish souk, also known as the tailors' souk, in the Tunis medina near the Zaytuna Mosque. The café was especially known for its Andalusian architecture. The customers sit on mats sipping coffee, leaning on archways and pillars.
Copied from a drawing by Sir Grenville Temple, published in his book The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean in London in 1840, this drawing was taken from Chelli Zouhir, La Tunisie au Rythme des Estampes du Xve au XIXe siecle (Tunis, ed. Tunis Carthage: 1992), p. 65, fig. 25.
Saloua Khadhar Zangar "Café du Marabout in the Souk Ettrouk" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tn;92;en
Prepared by: Saloua Khadhar Zangar
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin
MWNF Working Number: TN 097
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