Inscribed :1985, 1986 Criteria: C (iii)

Justification for Inscription:
Report of the 9th Session of the Committee
Report of the 10th Session of the Committee

Brief description:
This Phoenician city, probably abandoned during the First Punic War (around 250 B.C.), and as a result not rebuilt by the Romans, constitutes the only remains of a Phoenicio-Punic city, which has survived. Its houses were built to a standard plan in accordance with a very developed form of town-planning.