View of Bab Sidi Abdessalem and the hafsid fontain in 1890

Bab Sidi Abdessalem (Arabic: باب سيدي عبد السلام) is one of the gates of the medina of Tunis.

It was built in the reign of Hammouda Pasha, it takes its name from Abd As-Salam Al-Asmar, a holy man from Libya.

We find near this the door a Hafsid fountain and a souk.

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