Sfax

Sfax's medina is distinguished by a comparatively regular street pattern inside fortified walls. Two principal axes organise its layout, with the Great Mosque near the centre, market areas to the north and residential fabric across the remaining quarters. The limited number of dead-end streets sets it apart from many other historic medinas.

Outside the enclosure, the Bab Bhar district developed with broader streets while retaining aspects of the older city's organisation. Changes in use have also reshaped the medina: from the 1970s, workshops and commercial activity, particularly shoe production, occupied buildings as residents moved towards peripheral housing. Its heritage therefore includes an urban structure that continues to accommodate changing working uses.