About Tunis Village in Fayoum

Tunis Village in Fayoum

Tunis Village is a beautiful little place inside the Fayoum Oasis and is considered one of the most beautiful natural places in Egypt. Tunis Village is a small and beautiful place within the Fayoum Oasis; on the road to Wadi El Rayan, it is located on a hill with a beautiful view of the edge of the desert on the other side of a large water lake. Salty. It is considered one of the most beautiful natural places in Egypt.

Not so long ago, it was a small fishing village on the southern shore of Lake Qarun. Although it may resemble thousands of other Egyptian towns, Tunis Village has a different charm and unique vibes. This is an unusual little place and one of the quietest in the country.

The village was founded in 1980 by a Swiss potter Evelyn Burrett who visited Egypt, especially Fayoum, with some of her Egyptian friends. Soon, she decided to come to Tunis’s village and build her dream country house on this land. The house is designed as a primitive roof, using environmentally friendly building materials. She was the inspiration for the designs of Hassan Fathy, the dean of contemporary architects.

Then he established a ceramics studio in the new country house. At first, the village children visited a discovery out of curiosity, to see and know what was happening in the place they heard about. Some of the children and their families seemed very interested in the foreign woman’s new job, which encouraged her to help them search within her for the talents they possessed. Gradually, she also built her school of pottery on the land of the same charming village.

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