Filming Locations
Tunisia
A Country
of Contrasts
Desert to forest. Roman ruins to Mediterranean coast. The Sahara is six hours from the capital, and CTV has spent 35 years learning every kilometre of it.
Desert to forest. Roman ruins to Mediterranean coast. The Sahara is six hours from the capital, and CTV has spent 35 years learning every kilometre of it.
Tunisia is a country of striking contrasts. The north has classic, Italian-style rolling hills and wheat fields. Six hours south, the pristine Sahara begins, with vast dunes and rocky landscapes that have drawn film crews from across the world for decades. To the west, the land rises into mountains covered in dense forest. On the eastern coastline, golden beaches meet the Mediterranean.
For thousands of years Tunisia served as a crossroads for ancient civilisations: Roman, Byzantine, Punic, Carthaginian, Ottoman, Andalucian, Arab and finally French. This layered heritage has produced an unrivalled variety of buildings, monuments and archaeological sites, all within a small, manageable country of 11 million people with a high literacy rate and the only democracy in the region.
From Bizerte in the north to Tataouine in the south is approximately 600km, roughly the length of the California coastline. Within that distance you can shoot a European drama, a Saharan epic and an ancient civilisation story without ever leaving the country.
Tunis-Carthage International Airport operates direct flights to over 50 destinations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. London is under three hours. Paris is two. Rome is just over one.
We know every location in this country. Tell us what you're looking for
and we'll find it, or build it.