They were several the towns that settled down in the costs of the north of this country, eat Phoenicians for example, the Romans, the Jews or the Arabs, some of these also made it in the south area, in the desert. But it takes, to these towns they were added the Muslims from Spain and the Ottoman Turks.This is a cultural mixture characteristic of mediterranean many areas, as the lands of Sicily or the Greek islands with a lot of history, those which the same as Tunisia was exposed constantly to merchants, navigators and empires of the whole region.

Culturally the inhabitants of Tunisia constitute an enough liberal nation. Throughout their history they have been frequent the cultural exchanges with the rest of the mediterranean towns. The art has been very influenced by the cultural mixture of the country.

Inside the culture of that country, the painting is something very present in Tunisia, and inside its contemporary art, the styles reflect among the geometric forms of Hédi Turki, until the style free of Nja Mahdaoui. These are some of the galleries that will be able to find in the cápital of this country and their alrrededores.

lists of the galleries of painting in Tunisia: Club Tahar Hadad (Túnez). Espace Ali Guermassi (Túnez). Galeria Blel (Túnez). Galeria Chyem II (Túnez). Galeria de la Medina (Túnez).Galerie Gorgi (Túnez). Galería «EAD» Mimita (Túnez). Galería Ettaswir (Túnez). Galería El Abed (Túnez). Galería Cherif (Sidi Bou Saïd). Galería Ammar Farhat (Sidi Bou Saïd). Museo de Sidi Bou Said (Sidi Bou Said). Galería Essaadi (Cartago). Galería Sophonisbe (Cartago). Galería Sraya (Susa). C.C. Internacional de Hammamet (Hammamet). Galería Kalyste (Soukra). Galería Ain (Kram). Galería Driba (La Marsa).

The Literature is another of the things to highlight of Tunisia

Inside the global panorama of the Arab magreb literature, corresponding Tunecina known historically is the one  Ifriqiyya.The literature of Iffiqiyya development begins starting from s. XI, when in the centers urban notables of the country (Qayrawán, Tunisia, Mahdia, etc.) work some poets of certain value: Ibrahim, al-Husrá (m. 1022), lbn garaf, m. in Al-Andalus (1068), Ibri al-tallá' and al-Kafif al-HusrI - (m. 1095). Of the same time it is the great antólogo and critical of the literature lbn Raá-lq (m. 1064). The brilliant state hafsí that governs Tunisia starting from the XIII century promotes a literary interesting movement of which you/they are exponents the poets Ahmad al-Gassiini, Garaf al-Din Ab5-1-Fad1 and Abu Zakariyá' (m. 1249), first sultan independent hafsí.