Bizerte from the water

The tallest building is the old French officers' housing. In 1956, after the French had left Tunisia, they maintained a military presence in the city because of its strategic deep water port (it was used by the Allies as a crucial launching point for the invasion of Sicily - check out Rick Atkinson's An Army at Dawn if you want to learn more). This led to armed conflict between France and Tunisia in 1961 that claimed many Tunisian lives.