Nabeul Friday Market

Each Friday the streets of Nabeul fill with stalls of pottery, baskets, spices and harissa, alongside the everyday trade of local farmers.

History

Nabeul has been a crafts town for two thousand years, known for pottery and orange-blossom water.

Customs

Go early, before the tour buses from Hammamet arrive late morning.

Food

Buy a jar of harissa or "bsissa", a roasted grain flour mixed with oil and sugar.

Best time

Friday mornings, all year. Orange blossom season is March to April.

Nabeul’s potters work with clay from the area and have done so since Roman times, when the town was Neapolis.