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Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The stone village, 10 km west of town on the Douz road makes an interesting side trip.
Tamezret or Tamazrat is a Tunisian Berber village located in the south-east of the country, about ten kilometers from Matmata and forty kilometers southwest of the capital of the governorate of Gabès on which it depends. Ridge village built on the four slopes of one of the highest hills of the Matmata mountains.(480 m altitude).
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Scenes from the Lars homestead in Star Wars were filmed here. Accommodation is simple (the bedrooms are formed from individual caves hollowed out from the rock, with shared bathroom facilities), but unique; visit for a day trip or spend the night (see below).