Bab Sidi Abdessalem

Bab Sidi Abdessalem (Arabic: باب سيدي عبد السلام) is one of the gates of the medina of Tunis.

View of Bab Sidi Abdessalem and the hafsid fontain in 1890

It was built in the reign of Hammouda Pasha, it takes its name from Abd As-Salam Al-Asmar, a holy man from Libya.

We find near this the door a Hafsid fountain and a souk.

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