35 kilometers from the capital are the ruins of ancient Carthage, founded in 814 BC, the capital of one of the great States of antiquity. Here was the centre of a trading Empire of the Phoenicians, which included almost all of the Mediterranean, there was a junction of trade routes across the Sahara and West Asia, rattled here the famous battles of the Punic wars.

Most of the extant structures Dating back to I century – Roman period, and during excavations of the hill of byrsa structures were discovered in the times of the Phoenicians.

The National Museum of Carthage is located in the former convent. Here you can see the stone sarcophagi of the Roman and Punic periods, Roman mosaics, sculptures, and a collection of pottery, funerary vases and stone blocks.

Archaeological Park of Roman villas occupies the Eastern slope of the hill Odeon. Here you can see the Rome III century house, called the house of the House due to the mosaic of birds. Nearby are the fragments of the III century Odeon built in Septimia North for poetic contests, and theater of the second century, where now are the performances of the international festival.

Near the sea there is the Archaeological Park of the Thermae of Antoninus Pius. Here you can see the small sarcophagi for the burial of children, sacrificed to the God Baal; the underground cistern, the remains of houses with fragments of mosaics; huge ruins of the Thermae, built under the Emperor Antoninus.
From later eras were the ruins of numerous Byzantine churches, the Cathedral of Saint-Louis (1890) in the back of the chapel which housed the national Museum, the Cathedral of St. Cyprian and Museum levizery who.