This is the main city in northwestern Tunisia, being an important political and religious.
The city occupies an area of 2.500 hectares, 45 are within the ancient walls of the medina.
Oung Jemel, literally, the camel’s neck, is visited each year by thousands of tourists, served as the shooting site of Star Wars and the English Patient.
It is said that Utica was one of the first Phoenician trading posts to have been established on the soil of Africa, probably around 1100 BC. Older than Carthage, Utica for a long time played the
role of capital before being overshadowed by her neighbour founded at the end of the IXth century BC but that expanded rapidly.