The delicate political situation in Tunisia has had as one of its main centers of fighting the old city of Carthage, near the palace of deposed President Ben Ali. Visit of 2005.
I've seen so many old buildings around the world. Not all really interesting, not all height of the evoked memory. I fear that Carthage was a victim of the curse of the looting and cement. I fear that the neglect had the better of the rightness of the old, on his great modesty. And who knows if I will be able to capture that feeling that will never die.
brooded on these questions taxis darting in the thin strip of land that cuts off the saltwater lagoon of Tunis. The driver runs like a madman at the wheel of his VW with 400,000 km, I still wonder how you do not fall apart in the middle of the road, many are the creaks and noises affecting it.
Carthage, Carthago old, being announced with the steeples and domes of the Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint-Louis, an example not to follow architecture at the same time wants to be colonial, Gothic and Romanesque architecture. You can imagine ... The museum stretches lazy and acquitted at his feet, full of artifacts Phoenician, Punic, Greek and Roman. The mosaics that captures and preserves are not just, make reference to ancient times of glory. The Phoenician pottery is with the grace and the boldness of accumulated millennia. A couple of skeletons that tell you Punic compounds show almost enough to inspire affection. That's it. Leaving the museum, the space opens up a snapshot of marine and archaeological: columns, capitals and pediments and sea. Nothing more. The cement business and are hidden from the heights.
It's all right. And then I see that Augustine admonishes and encourages Christians threatened by so many heresies of the time. I see Hannibal admonishes and encourages his troops ready to campaign craziest thing you could imagine. I see Hadrian, the emperor, who admonishes and encourages its fans using his eloquence and his deep vision.
The amphitheater - three thousand spectators - is marred by the metal structures that make summer arena still in use. Moreover, it rests on a minaret cheap. At Ephesus is the most complete, most picturesque Taormina, Pompeii's oldest ... But here, again, I can imagine in the company of Adrian, Annibale, Agostino. And the magic is reborn, and this certainly s'oblia in a more glorious past.
Some Roman villa, a few broken column, s'indovina an area that once was a circus up. Little else. And a flight of steps, they say, did ascend to the Temple of Apollo in Roman memory. The staircase is now reduced to little more than a steep grassy slope. It matters little, Carthage is now in my memory, and we have left.
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