Sidi Bou Said
The grandest house in Sidi Bou Said must surely be the Dar Ennejma Ezzahra, the former home of Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger, a weathy French musicologist, painter and patron of the arts. He moved to Sidi Bou Said in the early years of the 20th century and built this magnificent palace in neo-Moorish style between 1912 and 1922. It was he who proposed the 1912 bye-law obliging the owners of houses in the town to be painted white and cornflower-blue. His former home now houses a small museum of musical instruments, as well as the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music. This photograph shows one of the outbuildings and part of the rock garden.
Sidi Bou Said
The grandest house in Sidi Bou Said must surely be the Dar Ennejma Ezzahra, the former home of Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger, a weathy French musicologist, painter and patron of the arts. He moved to Sidi Bou Said in the early years of the 20th century and built this magnificent palace in neo-Moorish style between 1912 and 1922. It was he who proposed the 1912 bye-law obliging the owners of houses in the town to be painted white and cornflower-blue. His former home now houses a small museum of musical instruments, as well as the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music. This photograph shows one of the outbuildings and part of the rock garden.