Ksar Ouled Soltane Ksar Ouled Soltane (Arabic: كصر أولد سلطان‎) is a fortified granary, or ksar, located in the Tataouine district in southern Tunisia. The ksar is spread out over two courtyards, each of which has a perimeter of multi-story vaulted granary cellars, or ghorfas. Like other ksour (plural of ksar) created by North African Berber communities, Ksar Ouled Soltane is located on a hilltop, to help protect it from raiding parties in previous centuries. Ksar Ouled Soltane is now a tourist destination, with visitors coming to see its well-preserved granary vaults. It was also featured in the movie Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in some of the scenes used to represented the slave quarters of Mos Espa, where the character Anakin Skywalker lived as a boy. source: Lonely Planet Tunisia, 3rd edition According to a local informant(Jan. 09), this ksar was actually a Bedouin settlement and not a Berber one like the other well-known sites of the region.

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