Hergla

Hergla () is a small cliff-top town in north-eastern Tunisia at the Gulf of Hammamet. White houses of Hergla with often blue window and door surroundings are built in the classic style characteristic for Tunisia. Sousse is about 24 km south-east of Hergla. There is a lagoon between Hergla and its neighbour town Chott Meryem in the south-east called Halk el menzel (sickle lake).

== History == Both Roman and Byzantine ruins are found along the shore. Under Roman rule, Hergla was known as Horrea Caelia. It is unclear whether the name derived from Punic, the Greek demigod Hercules, or Latin words for storehouses () or frontier. The first theory is supported by attestation of the presence of a Roman family known as the Caelii. In the 3rd century, Horrea Caelia was a border town between the districts of Byzacena (capital Hadrumete, present-day Sousse) and Zeugitana (capital Carthage). In the 6th century, the Byzantine Empire established a fortress. During the Arab conquest in the 7th century, the residents of the city were massacred.