Cape Bon

Cape Bon projects from northeastern Tunisia into the central Mediterranean. The peninsula separates the Gulf of Tunis to the north from the Gulf of Hammamet to the south, its hills and valleys enclosed by the sea on three sides. Seasonal rivers cross its hills and run down to the shores on either side. Its northern tip was known in antiquity as the Cape of Mercury. On the eastern shore stand the remains of Kerkouane, a Punic town whose ruins preserve traces of the settlements that once faced these waters.