Name of Object:

Grand Bazar Arabe. A late-19th-century bazaar built in Tunis by the construction company of G. Di Vittorio, an Italian immigrant in Tunisia

Name in original language:

Grand Bazar Arabe. G. Di Vittorio imprenditore. Tunisi

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

Italian Geographical Society (SGI)

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Holding Institution (original language):

Società Geografica Italiana (SGI)

Date of Object:

Photograph: first years of the 20th century; building: late 19th century

Description:

On the main entrance one can read the shop sign “Grand Bazar Kassar Said”; on the left “Grand Bazar Arab” and on the right, one can read the shop sign “I. Piperno”: Piperno is an unmistakably Italian Jewish name.
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, who ran the construction company that built this building, migrated from Termini Imerese (a small town near Palermo, Sicily, Italy) in 1882.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

Comitato della Camera italiana di commercio ed arti, Gli italiani in Tunisia, Tunis, 1906, p. 189

Citation of this web page:

Giulia Barrera "Grand Bazar Arabe. A late-19th-century bazaar built in Tunis by the construction company of G. Di Vittorio, an Italian immigrant in Tunisia" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;101;en

Prepared by: Giulia Barrera
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 101