EL-HOURIYA SQUARE (FREEDOM SQUARE)

At the end of the shopping arcades of the Italian era buildings of the beautiful pedestrian area of rue Omar Moukhtar is the Place de la Liberté, ex place Baladiya (place de la Mairie). It is surrounded by Italian buildings, including the former Italian town hall dating from the early 1930 s and the Ottoman mosque El-Aatik. The façade of the former Italian town hall would require renovation, but it remains graceful. It is a Moorish style characteristic of Italian colonial architecture in its early stages, which will then be abandoned to the advantage of a monumental rationalist architecture with épurées shapes to the glory of the new fascist Rome.