Bab El Khadhra

Bab El Khadhra

Bab El Khadhra (Gate of greenery)

This gate was so called because it opened on green fields where one made market gardening and shrubbery. Defended by a bastion, the gate commanded the roads to Carthage and Ariana. Its economic and strategic role led to the disappearance of Bab Carthagena. However, as it only had a very narrow bay, quite insufficient to meet the needs of traffic, after 1881, it was replaced by the current monumental complex which gives a picturesque character to this district which was long deprived.