Carthage
Rome's Great Rival
Gateway town: Tunis
Portrait
Rome destroyed Carthage in 146 BC and refounded it a century later as the empire's second city in the west, which is why the Punic layer survives only in the Tophet and the Byrsa hill while the visible ruins are Roman baths and villas. The site is scattered through a wealthy Tunis suburb — take the TGM train and treat it as a walk between fragments.
Nearby in the atlas