EL KEF is a small city in northwest

Tunisia, built onto the southern face

of the Jebel Dyr Mountain, which is

part of the Tebersouk Mountains, at

the east end of the High Atlas

Mountains.

It is a relaxed town, offering an

authentic taste of Tunisia with some

interesting sights to see.

The main attraction is the Byzantine

Kasbah. Noticeable from almost any

part of the city, it rises out of the old

medina and used to be a site of a

series of fortresses dating back to the

5th century BC. The site's last military

use was in the early 1950s, as a

place of detention for Habib

Bourguiba, the first president of the

Tunisian Republic.