Tunisia
Sidi Ali El Mekki Fort ranks #8,994 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #28 of the 33 mapped in Tunisia. The nearest day-trip guide is Tunis, 41 km away. See how Tunisia compares in the castle statistics.
Sidi Ali El Mekki Fort, also known as Borj Sidi Ali El Mekki, is a historic Ottoman fort located in the town of Ghar El Melh in the Bizerte Governorate in northern Tunisia. It is one of the three Ottoman forts that were built in the town to protect the port and the coastal area, and it still stands today as a witness to Ottoman military architecture in the country.
Machine-translated from “البرج اللوطاني” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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