It is located half way from "Bab Jelladine" towards "Bab Tounes".

As you go up the stairway, you will enter first a small dome. In this dome you will find a camel rotating around a well. The camel is attached to a “noria” (wood-wheel) that brings jars filled with fresh water served in a "hallab" (clay-made mug) by attendants.

This well was build by the Abbaside governor of Ifriqia (North Africa) Harthama Ibn El Ayoun in 796 AD (period of the famous Abbaside Caliph Haroun Errachid) near the souk (market) of Kairouan.
Harthama had also constructed the Ribat of Monastir.
The present building goes back to the Mouradite period (Mohamed Bey Ibn Mourad 1690AD).
The legend says that the Barrouta water communicates with that of the holy Bir Zem Zem (sacred well in Mecca)

Mohamed Rebai
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