Dar El Monastiri

Dar El Monastiri (Arabic: دار المنستيري) is a palace in the Medina of Tunis.

It is located in 9 El Monastiri Street near Sidi Mahrez mausoleum.

The palace was built in the 19th century during the reign of Mahmud Bey, by his son Al-Husayn II who later gave it to M'hamed El Monastiri, a noble and a trader of Chachia (chaouachi). During the French occupation, it was an arts institute.

In 1930, it became the office of craft training and then a regional center of Tunisian arts in 1940.

In 2007, it became the main office of the tunisian center of translation.

Text adapted from “Dar El Monastiri” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dar El Monastiri ranks #5,722 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #10 of the 30 mapped in Tunisia. Founded c. 1850, it is older than 8% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 607 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. 10 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Tunis, 1 km away. See how Tunisia compares in the castle statistics.

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