Djerba - Tunisia

 Well, well, things have been a bit slow lately. And why is that? Because I'm not getting postcards. Since the beginning of the year, I must have only received about 4!! One of them was this postcard from the island of Djerba, in Tunisia, which was classified as a World Heritage Site in 2023. 

For me it would be enough just to have a postcard from the there, but when I tagged Veerle I didn't realized she was going to send it from Tunisia. It was a nice suprise. I think I just have one of two cards written and sent from there.

This serial property is a testimony to a settlement pattern that developed on the island of Djerba around the 9th century CE amidst the semi-dry and water-scarce environment. Low‑density was its key characteristic: it involved the division of the island into neighbourhoods, clustered together, that were economically self-sustainable, connected to each other and to the religious and trading places of the island, through a complex network of roads. Resulting from a mixture of environmental, socio-cultural and economic factors, the distinctive human settlement of Djerba demonstrates the way local people adapted their lifestyle to the conditions of their water-scarce natural environment. - in: https://whc.unesco.org