Sidi Bou-Saïd is a Tunisian village situated 20 km in the northeast of Tunis, it's perched on the Carthage cape, on the flank of a cliff of more than 100 m high, the Manâr djebel. Famous since the beginning of the XX century, Sidi Bou-Saïd; of the name of the holy chief of the village; becomes an international appointment place for the artists.

In 1915, the English baron of Erlanger, a famous orientalist painter, gets the protection of the site and undertakes the restoration of the palaces, the revalorisation of the traditional Tunisian architecture and the renewal of some shapes of handicraft. The village became a real picture of the traditional Tunisia, with its houses, the white walls and blue shutters and its paved alleys.