Ribat of Monastir

Paying a visit to the majestic Ribat of Monastir before leaving Tunisia’s central coast to return to Carthage.

The Ribat of Monastir, an Islamic fort built in 796 during the Muslim conquest of North Africa, is the main tourist attraction in a city that gets its name from the Greek word for monastery.

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Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."

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