Chebika is a mountain oasis in western Tunisia, in Tozeur
Governorate. Chebika lies at the foot of the mountains of the Djebel el Negueb
and, because of its exposure to the sun, it is known as
Qasr el-Shams ("Castle of the Sun" in Arabic).In
antiquity, it was once a Roman outpost, named
Ad Speculum and later a mountain refuge of the Berber people. The
contemporary village of Chebika comprises several hundred people, build near
the old one, abandoned in 1969 after catastrophic inundations. Many scenes of
the movie
Star Wars Episode IV: A New
Hope and
The English Patient
were shot in this area.
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