Abdellia Palace

Abdellia Palace (Arabic: قصر العبدلية‎) is a palace located in La Marsa, a town in the northern suburbs of the capital of Tunisia, Tunis.

View of the Abdellia Palace

It is built in 1500 (905 AH) at the location of the old port to become, in the 17th and 18th century, a summer residence for Muradids and Husainids and a shelter in external threats.

Among personalities who inhabited the palace, Mahmud ibn Muhammad (1814-1824), his son Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud and the British consuls Richard Wood and Thomas Reade can be cited.[1]

  • Palace gate
  • Palace patio
  • Interior view

References
  1. "Palais al-Abdilliyya". qantara-med.org (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-09-10. Retrieved 28 August 2016.

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