Drawing first artists like André Gide and Paul Klee, Hammamet has become in the space of half a century a seaside resort of the jet set tourism. The rich Tunisians were also building their summer homes, a sign that does not deceive the beauty of the site.
Despite the thousands of tourists who invade each year, the city has retained a certain charm. Its medina, surrounded by walls, houses souks fabrics and perfumes. The narrow streets and cut flowers are an invitation to a slow vagrancy. If you are here in the spring, the smell of orange flowers will captivate your senses; yet, almost forgetting to visit the villa Sebastian to the west of the city.