Zriba El Alia

There is one thing to be careful about. If you do not have a car, I recommend you not to go far from the historical site. There's a lot of fierce dogs around, so if you let your guard down, you'll be surrounded. The dogs are genuinely trying to bite and attack people. I was attacked while walking to get a taxi. I think they're home-guarded dogs, They try to attack people when they get past the house, so be careful.

Abandoned village surrounded by beautiful landscape

Initially, according to the definition of the National Institute of Heritage, the word "zariba" means a fence or a walled area and an open courtyard "the courtyard." Omar Belhadi, a researcher in the field of urban and urban planning, believes that the village's Aleviya has a special symbolism as it indicates the defense defense of the position of the Berbers who established the village, and chose to settle at the top of the hill to defend themselves from external dangers, which we find in all Berber villages north and south. . The narratives mention that the founding of the villages of "Upper Zriba", "Tacona" and Grado "goes back to three brothers who came from Far Morocco. Each one of them founded a village at the summit of the mountain peaks, which is considered a natural continuation of Mount Zaghouan. We delved deeper into the search to discover what the historical accounts say about the construction of the village of "Al-Zariba Al-Olaya". We met the researcher, Maryam Al-Marzouki, who narrated that the founding of the village was linked to its counterparts in the same geographical area, namely the villages of "Tacona" and "Grado", indicating that the circulating accounts mention that the founding of this village The villages belong to three brothers who came from the far Maghreb, each of whom founded a village at the top of the mountain heights, which is a natural connection to the Zaghouan mountain. According to the National Institute of Heritage, the human presence in the "Upper Zriba", "Grado" and "Tacona" goes back to the Lobby era, as the monuments discovered in the region confirm the succession of civilizations on it, such as the Berber, Punic, Roman, Byzantine, and then Arab civilizations. And Hanaya Ain Al-Batriya and Al-Zariba Hammam, which was promoted in the Roman era to a municipality, and its citizens obtained the title of a citizen of Rome, to saturate them with the Roman civilization, according to the same source. Most historians, according to the institute, also suggest the birth of the village of Al-Zriba Al-Olaya to the Roman conquest of Tunisia or to the eleventh century during the crescent encroachment on the Tunisian country. According to the popular memory, the establishment of the village of Al-Zriba Al-Olaya may go back to the seventeenth century by 3 brothers who came from Sakia Al-Hamra from the Maghreb and settled in 3 different mountain sites. Or emergency or joy. In another narration, the village was established by some tribes coming from Sakia El Hamra and the Maghreb, such as Mansour, Ben Ali, Mubarak and Hajj Hussein, and tribes coming from Morocco, such as the Bediwi and Hamarna, and that is always according to what we have read on the National Institute of Heritage website. Human settlement continued during the Carthaginian and Roman times to be the "zeriba bath", the most important effect of the period of Roman presence in Tunisia. Researcher Maryam Al-Marzouki says in her thesis: “Arab sources that were exposed to the period of the Arab-Islamic conquests of Africa did not mention the village of Al-Zariba during the first centuries of the Middle Ages. The beginnings of mentioning these villages in the sources go back to the Hafsid era, which witnessed a population movement and the delegations of several tribes to construct this area. Mountain ranges in general. " Hammam Al-Zariba "is the most important effect of the period of Roman presence in Tunisia, and for the inhabitants of the village, Al-Marzouki says that the reconstruction of this mountainous area was carried out by Berber Berber tribal groups since ancient times, and their presence continued and was supported by successive migrations during the Middle Age, especially during the Hafsid era that was known. Migrations before Berber / Berber (such as Jabal Nafusa and Jabal Matmata) This area also defined the settlement of groups of Arab and Bedouin tribes, such as the Sons of Said and the Sons of Riah at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era, who settled on the plains adjacent to the heights of the mountain.

Fantastic abandoned berber village. We drove out here and were shown around by a local man. Fun, exciting and beautiful scenes. The old village, Zriba Olia (High Zriba) is of Berber origin, located about three kilometers south of Hammam Zriba. The now-ruined village, built between two cliff tops, offers views of Jebel Zaghouan, the fourth highest peak in Tunisia after Djebel Chambi.

Breathtaking location, incredible scenery and historically unique location is an abandoned Berber village in the middle of the mountains. between nature and culture is the miniature version of the matchoupitchou to do absolutely