THE BASILICA OF RAS EL-HILAL

16 km east of Soussa, take a small bridge on the left which runs through a oued. The first path on the right leads to an old abandoned lighthouse and a building converted into a stable. We advise you to walk on foot because, at the place where the wooded Wadi jette into the sea, you have a superb view over the bay with crystal clear waters.

500 m further, the road leads to a second unpaved path. It leads to the Byzantine church of Ra Hilal: the entrance to the site is adjacent to a large building. On the offshore, there are four fish farming circular farms at sea.

The narthex (entrance of the church) consists of two small square pieces, of which the south remains the remains of a staircase which allowed access to the galleries. The central nave was decorated in the th century with a mosaic of mosaics that represented, as in Nineveh Libya, the feminine personification of the founding terms of all Byzantine churches: Ktisis and kosmesis (you can see them at the Soussa museum). Basically, the apse (arc of circle) is flanked in the south by a small baptistery and, in the north, by a martyrium who preserved the relics of the martyr Saint Andréa. It appears that after the Arab invasion in 643, the basilica was transformed into a mosque before being definitively abandoned in the th century. The view on the bay is splendid.