Carthage - Quartier Magon

The Quartier Magon excavation site is in a small park (entrance on the sea front, between the Kothon and the Archeological Park in Carthage). The site gives some impression of the development of the town in Punic times. Immediately behind the sea wall (fifth century B.C.), which just before the Third Punic War was 13m/43ft high, was the craftsmen's quarter; beyond this were larger houses, and beyond these again luxurious villas with richly patterned terrazzo floors. There is a small museum with models of the Punic town walls, houses and streets, pavement mosaics of the Punic period and a model of the ancient quarries at El Haouaria.