The city of Kairouan, Tunisia live big celebrations to mark the birthday of the Prophet Islamic, and is preparing the city for the occasion at all levels where festooned and look beautiful and be the bride the center of Tunisia, radiate all aspects of the celebrations across the city, merchants, craftsmen, residents all getting ready to receive the thousands of visitors who come from all over the place and foreigners to visit the city and sacred places and historical in Kairouan.
Kairouan is visited each year 400,000 tourists and stimulate more with the approach of the celebrations of the Prophet's birthday and it has a special place and the sanctity of the Tunisians who move to the city by the thousands for the night birth of the Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of Islam, the visitors to ensure a blessed inside the shrine "Sidi Sahbi," and then a mosque "Okba Ibn Nafi" Muslim conqueror of Tunisia, this mosque transformed over time into a cultural center for the students of Islamic religious sciences, there is also the House of wisdom, built by princes "Bani Ghalib."
With the sunrise the morning the city begins to receive visitors from all Tunisia's neighboring Tunisia and countries in North Africa, as well as foreign visitors from around the world in preparation for the day promised and sellers "Almkarod" equipped their stores with flour dates putty ghee and dry fruits which are essential materials for the industry, "Almkarod" Tunisians greedily consumed "Almkarod" when visiting the city.
With the approach of the Prophet's birthday increases the movement does not stop the clock and a special night and the birth of the Prophet's orders multiply greatly.
During the day prior to the date of the celebration of visitors traveling from the mosque "Okba Ibn Nafi" to serve as "Abe Zama'a" The Barber of the Prophet of Islam Mohammed, as well as three doors mosque and shrine, "Mr. Obaid Ghiryani" famous beauty of the roof and the porch raised on pillars Byzantine then be traffic within Antique city to stop in front of one of the walls of the archaeological excellent commented upon paper that read «each city water of Zamzam, Kairouan Zamzam water" Broth »."
People of the city says that drinking water "Broth" will definitely return to visit Kairouan again.
And includes the city of Kairouan historic landmarks built by the children, "Ghalib" and the famous fountain where water started pouring down a lot in the winter and lose the rest of the year gathering, the fountain is a basin has 48 rib and a diameter of 120 meters, and remains to this day one of the destinations visitors bizarre shape of the fountain and the issue is important to many Painters and photographers.
On the day of birth of the Prophet women rise early to do to prepare porridge and puts above honey margarine or olive oil, sugar, and with the passage of time has become a porridge made from pine seeds called "Zkouko" festooned types of dry fruits, in the evening, families gather around the dishes "couscous" dish first national in the country with lamb or chicken, and during the evening most of the men wearing traditional dress like Prince Chechia robe worn some women to dress funky also like Hayek, a women's cloak made of wool color tends to yellow.
Unique to the city of Kairouan a special kind of bread is round and a huge smell attractive, and the city of Kairouan is famous for its carpet industry and has a special festival for the carpet to rush with a private couples, the importance carpet Kairouan it is genuine, not industrial, which does not change color and lose their smoothness.
This city is famous for its handmade copper industry also, when visitors come to buy different kinds of wrought copper where there are many kinds of crews made of copper.
