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Culture

Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG

Cultural Expenditure 0.16 %

Cultural Infrastructure
(per 100 000 4.65 No Benchmark Available
inhabitants)

Bizerte currently spends only 0.16 per cent of its total operating budget on the preservation, protection
and conservation of its cultural and natural heritage, including events such as the renowned Summer
Festival and the prevailing Mendole Fish (Chawri) Festival. Its cultural institutions include historic sites,
such as the Byzantine Fort or Kasbah, its theatre and the Oceanographic Museum.

Cultural infrastructures create environments conducive to the emergence of dynamic and vibrant
cultural sectors and clusters as they are a source of cultural, social, as well as economic vitality in the
areas in which they are located, especially through tourism. The region in which Bizerte sits in not as
popular a tourist centre as the eastern coast of Tunisia. Further investment in its cultural infrastructure
and the corresponding development of its tourism industry will lead to positive economic outcomes
for Bizerte, and will help alleviate the city’s problem of high youth unemployment.

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