North of the Great Mosque is the wonderful world of the covered souqs. The main souq heading north is the celebrated Souq des Etoffes, which was used as the setting for the Cairo markets in the film The English Patient . The shops here stock a range of Berber rugs, blankets and other handicrafts from the villages of the Gafsa region.
Souq des Etoffes emerges on rue des Teinturiers, where the dyers once carried on their business. If you keep going until you hit rue Abdelkader, which runs inside the medina's northern wall, you'll get to the delightful Bab Jebli, one of the original Aghlabid gates.
