Region
El Kef
dates
2023
category
Our spaces and heritage tours
This digital tour, lasting approximately 1.5 hours, allows you to explore the city of Kef on foot, visiting its traditional bakeries and discovering the history of the region through its wheat cultivation. Your stroll will also take you to the living bread museum: Dar el Khobz.
An ancient grain-producing region, considered the breadbasket of Rome, Kef’s development has been closely linked to wheat cultivation and the production of flour, flatbreads and other traditional breads. In Kef, this is part of a thousand-year-old tradition that this tour aims to highlight, while also raising questions about food self-sufficiency.
Thanks to the scientific contribution of historian Mohamed Tlili, we have designed a cultural trail with five stops featuring QR codes available at five bakeries in the medina of Kef, highlighting the exceptional position of the north-western region in the millennia-long history of wheat cultivation in Africa.
The main thematic markers with QR codes on the trail are:
The nature and cycle of wheat
The different stages in the millennia-long history of wheat and bread in Africa, from the end of the prehistoric era to the Neolithic revolution (8000 BC)
The history of cereal cultivation in North Africa and Numidia
Numidia and wheat
Testimony of the ‘Harvester of Mactar’
In the Press
AfricaNews.com, février 2023, « Tunisie : Museum Lab ouvre une Maison du pain au Kef »Tunisie.co, février 2023, « Inauguration de Dar el Khobz de l’association Museum Lab au Kef »Radio RTCI, février 2023, 12 min., « Julie Jeantet, Projet Dar el Khobz de Museum Lab »Le Temps, février 2023, « Dar el Khobz ouvre ses portes au Kef »Brut Tunisie, janvier 2023, « Museum Lab revalorise le patrimoine du Kef »
Project partners
With the support of DROSOS Foundation
