✨ Must-See
🏛️ Monument
Great Andalusian Mosque
1631 mosque with rare square minaret. Hispanic-Moorish architecture.
💡 Tip: Exterior visit. Modest dress required.
Testour (60 km west of Tunis), a small town of 12,000 inhabitants, is Tunisia's capital of malouf (Arab-Andalusian music) and retains unique architecture in Tunisia: Andalusians expelled from Spain in 1609 settled here and built a rare square-minaret mosque and Andalusian-style houses.
Testour (60 km west of Tunis), a small town of 12,000 inhabitants, is Tunisia's capital of malouf (Arab-Andalusian music) and retains unique architecture in Tunisia: Andalusians expelled from Spain in 1609 settled here and built a rare square-minaret mosque and Andalusian-style houses.
Testour was founded around 1609 by the Moriscos (Andalusians expelled from Spain by Philip III). 80,000 Moriscos arrived in Tunisia and settled mainly in the Medjerda valley. Testour became their cultural capital. Architecture, malouf music, gardens, agriculture (oranges, olives): they transformed the region.
Testour's Great Mosque (1631) is unique: a square-minaret in Andalusian style (rare in Tunisia where they are octagonal), Hispanic-Moorish architectural influences. In the 20th century, Testour became the centre of malouf, Arab-Andalusian music inherited from Andalusia. International Malouf Festival since 1967.
3 unmissable sites selected by our local team.
1631 mosque with rare square minaret. Hispanic-Moorish architecture.
Andalusian architecture: courtyard houses, flowering gardens.
Annual Arab-Andalusian music festival.
A journey through the eras that shaped Testour.
Mosque built by newly arrived Morisques. Rare square minaret in Tunisia (Andalusian style). Hispano-Moorish architecture blending Ottoman and Spanish influences.
Tunisia's most important Arab-Andalusian music festival since 1967.
Car: 8 hours. Combinable with Le Kef or Tabarka.
Car necessary.
For its rare Andalusian architecture in Tunisia. Morisques expelled from Spain in 1609 settled here and built according to their Hispano-Moorish traditions. Square minaret, Andalusian gardens.
Our local team designs your ideal Testour programme. Private car or group place, cheapest on the market.