El Kantara

At the south end of the island is El Kantara. Little trace is left of the once important Roman town of Meninx which occupied the site. In the remains of a large Christian basilica was found a cruciform font, now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis. El Kantara lies at the end of the causeway (6.4km/4mi long, 10m/33ft wide) linking Djerba with the mainland, which rests on Roman and perhaps even older foundations. Parallel with it runs the pipeline which supplies the hotels in the northeast of the island with water from the mainland.