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On the site there are the remains of a basilica and a fortress.
Uppenna or Upenna is a Tunisian archaeological site located on the site of the present locality of Henchir Chigarnia. The site has revealed a basilica and the remains of a fortress.
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After the church was deconsecrated, it was decided to transform it into a museum of ancient Christian mosaic art, with a permanent exhibition of collections from the archaeological discoveries made in 1904-1905 at the sites of Uppenna (Henchir Chgarnia) and Sidi Abiche.
More than 1,500 British soldiers who fell between November 1942 and May 1943 in the fighting between the British Eighth Army and American forces on the one side, and Italian and German troops on the other, are buried here.