Archeological site of "CILLIUM": Roman Arch

The archeological remains prove today that the city of Kasserine had witnessed duringthe Roman and Byzantine eras profound developments. The ruins of thermae, theaters, arches and catacombs all around water sources and on hills show the vestiges of these two civilizations.

Since those ages, historical sources had not mentioned any event or fact relating to the eras which followed the Islamic conquest as if the city had been for times living outside the events which had left their marks on the country and aloof from the succeeding powers which had taken the reins of the region. Kasserine had been shadowed ever since the end of the Byzantine era and the beginning of the Islamic period and all along the Middle Ages. Today, there are only Roman and Byzantine ruins left which characterize the western central region like all other parts of Tunisia.