Monastir, or the city that is stretched on a ribbon of white sand along languidly azure blue sea caressing sensuality and beauty. Monastir nature has dressed in a coat and olive trees where the green sea of ​​plantations, the white sand and blue sea mingle and intertwine in a harmonious s waltz. Monastir c is the enchanting natural setting, c is also the story of a town with a historic radiation, cultural, political, commercial and tourism in Tunisia indisputable and well beyond even. Indeed, no one can deny the ancient and glorious past of the old city as well visited by Hannibal Julius Caesar who fought his battle against the Pompeian. No one can remain indifferent to the magnificent fortress majestically overlooking the Bay of Monastir Ribat his object of glory and pride, turns his weapon of defense, his cult center, its source of education and today a large Plateau cultural events. Monastir has provided unequivocal evidence of the importance of his venerable relics as his Ribat, the largest and oldest in North Africa and the ancient city recently discovered after many fouilles.Tous these remains are enough to attest to the importance of the past the old Ruspina. But historical events n not only contributed to Monastir what she is today, a very important cultural and academic city. His faculties of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, large schools of engineering, technology and allied sciences are all compelling evidence of the importance the city places on knowledge. Once home to several consultas European and US countries, Monastir played a role in diplomacy as well as politically since before the time of the French Protectorate, already, it was the seat of the garrison command whose Chief received orders directly from Tunis. The former Ruspina was also the birthplace of a great leader of the opposition to the colonial era, Habib Bourguiba, who became the first president tunisienne.Monastir, c is also a large shopping center, a turntable that plays a key role in the economy pays.Avec a rich and diverse activity based primarily on agriculture, industry and tourism, the old Ruspina shows its healthy and stirred pride in unemployment among the lowest in the sub-cultures pays.Ses greenhouses, agriculture based primarily on planting olive trees, the cattle, sheep and poultry that, fishing ports, exports of olive oil, small and medium enterprises, its textile mills are all attributes that make Monastir that is carving out a place in the economic life of the country. Its advanced position in the sea that Monastir is indeed a peninsula in perpetual contemplation of an ocean on the horizon infiniLe natural environment in which it operates consists of a tray, a sabkha (saline land), a lido and several islands two (Sidi El Ghédamsi el Ouestania) which are attached to the ground by two piers. The plateau is a triangular headland. The sabkha or lagoon has an area of ​​about 35 square kilometers. The lido is a 500 meters wide and 8 km long, is located between the sea and the sabkha. When the islands, they are six in number namely El Ouestania island, island El Maklouba (the Reversed) or El Mida Mida Kébira and Ességhira, Anf the island, the Kuriat islands 18km off Monastir. In 1884 a lighthouse was built as a landmark to the ports of Sousse