JANZOUR MUSEUM

This is a charming little museum, preceded by a garden carefully maintained by the guards: flowers, velvet vines, fig de, under great olive trees. On the ground floor, windows with precise explanations in English contain the items found in the funeral rooms located at the back of the building. These tombs, 22 in all, were discovered in 1958, while the museum dates back to 1973. Some of them are Punic, other Roman times or Byzantine times, which covers a period from the end of the th century BC to the fourth century. In the windows of all these periods, funeral objects themselves, such as funeral ballot boxes of the Second and Third Centuries, or everyday objects, such as domestique of domestic use, the bronze media of mirrors or crockery. Some light oil lamps (horse or character) are especially beautiful.

But the museum's true jewel is in the basement: A Byzantine burial chamber with paintings perfectly preserved, as moving as beautiful. The beautiful colourful frescoes cover the ceiling and walls. We admire the beautiful flowers and the little angels on the ceiling, as well as the frescoes of characters, men naked or draped with white, yellow, green or pink and elegant women.