Carthage - Roman Villas

Immediately adjoining the theater in Carthage is the Park of the Roman Villas (Parc des Villas Romaines). Once a Punic cemetery (in which a number of shaft graves are still to be seen), the site was later occupied by the peristyle villas of wealthy Romans. One third century house, the Villa des Volières, has been restored and now contains a small Antiquarium; fine pavement mosaics.

From the terrace, on which there are a number of fragments of sculpture, there is a fine view of Carthage, with the Presidential Palace below, the Gulf of Tunis and beyond this Cap Bon.