Manouba
Manouba is a city in north-eastern Tunisia, and is part the metropolitan area of Tunis, also called "Grand Tunis". It is located at the west of Tunis city center at around 36°48′28″N 10°6′4″E. It is the capital city of Manouba Governorate. Manouba is well known for its university. It is also an ideal place for family life because of its security, availability of various services and its high level of education. Historically, Manouba is noted as the... Show more birthplace of the sufi saint Sayyida ʿĀʾisha al-Mannūbiyya, and until 2012 the city contained a shrine to her, supposedly her father's house. It was customary in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for the Beys of Tunis to make a ritual circuit of city's the great shrines on the 27th day of Ramaḍān and visit this shrine. More recently, 'up until the Tunisian revolution of January 2011, once a week, on Sundays or Mondays, rituals were...