Ezzahra
Ezzahra is a coastal town on the outskirts of Tunis located south of the capital.
Ezzahra is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the municipalities of Rades, Hammam Lif and El-Bou Mhel Bassatine.
Administratively attached to the governorate of Ben Arous, it is the seat of a delegation and a municipality of 31,792 inhabitants while the city itself has a population of 6000 inhabitants. Other cities there are agglomerated.
The municipality was founded September 10, 1909, during the colonial period, under the name of Saint-Germain and was subsequently referred Ezzahra after the independence of Tunisia in honor of national fighter Lazhar Chraïti. Saint-Germain was known by the paintings Paul Klee made in 1915.
Ezzahra organizes a theater festival each summer. It also has a basketball club among the best in Tunisia and there is one of the oldest elementary schools and high schools in Tunisia and . Ezzahra is also the birthplace of the Tunisian progressive metal band Myrath.
