Early planning constraints dictated that hotels should not overreach the height of a tree, meaning that Hammamet’s buildings sprawl horizontally, a far cry from the brutal high-rise developments that have scarred so many other Mediterranean coasts.<\/p>\n
Hammamet is small-scale and suitably relaxed. The town’s center is packed with restaurants and shops, overlooked by its towering fort and medina walls.<\/p>\n
The metamorphosis from quiet fishing village began in the 1920s with the arrival of Romanian millionaire George Sebastian and the European fast set. Today, Hammamet is a full-blown resort town, and hundreds of hotels dot the coast for over a dozen miles (20km), from the walled-off bastions of Hammamet Nord to the wide, five-star-resort-lined boulevards of Yasmine Hammamet. Where the hotels stop, abruptly, the beach is once again wild and untouched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stretched out across Cap Bon’s southeastern coast like a lazy sunbather, laid-back Hammamet (“the baths” in Arabic) is Tunisia’s original resort town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12963,"featured_media":23568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33],"tags":[7,14,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-23571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-travel","9":"tag-apie-project","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-travel"},"yoast_head":"\n