Monastir, also called Mestir is a city on the central coast of Tunisia, in the Sahel area, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Sousse.
Monastir has a museum of Islamic arts, inaugurated on August 5, 1958, and which is housed on the first floor of the south wing of the ribat; it contains nearly 300 works (fragments of wood, funerary stelae, polished ceramics, etc.) and receives the visit of almost 100,000 visitors every year.
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