Carthage Popular Arts Festival. View of Monastir

This stamp dedicated to Monastir highlights the historical and tourist dimension of the city, by associating the ramparts and the ribat with contemporary hotel infrastructures. The illustration symbolizes the transformation of an ancient strategic and spiritual place into a major center of seaside and cultural tourism, where the memory of the past reinforces the attractiveness of the present. In the Tunisian context, this stamp illustrates the desire to make heritage a lever for economic development, by integrating history, architecture and the coastline into an overall vision of modernization and international influence of the country.