The Balcony Of The Mediterranean (12) by nedimchaabene1

I contine to make the turn of the picturesque village of Sidi Bou Said, which is with about twenty kilometers of Tunis, a true haven of peace, far from the tumult of the capital. Today, I would like to pay homage to two personalities which marked the History of this peaceful village: Baron d'Erlanger and Abou Saïd khalaf Ibn Yahya el-Tamini el-Beji At the beginning of the 20th century, Sidi Bou Said becomes the preferred place of the artists and men of culture who were allured by the village and his atmosphere. Artists and intellectuals, then, writers, architects, plastics technicians, scenario writers… elect residence there. An eminent personality was strongly dependent on the destiny of the village. It is Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger, banking British of German origin. This set on music, full with good taste and painter, came for the first time to the village at the beginning of the century. Seized by the beauty of the site, it solved to elect residence there. And at this point in time it made build its palace that it appointed “Nejma Ezzahra” of an architecture primarily orientalist. It was at the origin of the decree beylical of August 6th, 1915 saving the village and it is him who pushed to found the white and the blue of Sidi Bou Said. The city bears its name in honour of Abou Saïd Khalafa Ben Yahia Tamini el-Béji, large soufist respected who after a long existence in Tunis, withdrew himself on the heights of Sidi Bou Saïd (the “diminutive” of its name, which was allotted to the city at the 19th century), where it founds a mausoleum and teaches the religion starting from 1207. The brotherhood thus created will be the starting point of the development of a village. Sidi Bou Saïd dies in 1231: it is buried on the heights. Its mausoleum takes seat in the mausoleum, itself coupled at the Great Mosque of which the bleached minaret, as the rest of the buildings of the village, is drawn up behind Café des Nattes(the Coffee of the Plaits). The photo watch the main square of Sidi Bou Said, with several souvenir shops, one sees at the bottom, the famous Café des Nattes , evoked in the photo preceding one, and right behind, the minaret of this mosque! How it is seen, the white and blue gives pleasure to see!! via 500px http://ift.tt/2wtBBuY. By nedimchaabene1