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ID: T14 Title: Palace Dar Rachid, Tunis, Tunisia.  
Period of construction: End of the XVIII th century
Structural type: Stone Structure, lime sealer on the walls, wooden roofs
Chronology of intervention:
-End of the XVIII th century: It was first Rejeb Ben Ayed, employee to the service of Hamouda Pacha that, the first, would have founded his home and was enlarged by his successors.
-Middle of the XIX th century: Transformations owed to the sharing of the complex Palatine between the heirs Ben Ayed, then purchase of the palace by the general Rachid.
-May, 1896: The palace is affected to the church of the Rosary.
-1920: Funds are harvested to do the most remarkable transformations and additions most important of this time
-June 1964: The building became a good of the Tunisian state affected to the "Choôba of Tourbet El Bey" that used it like a room of feast and centre of formation.
-From 2000: Restoration, funding, and enhancement works.
Description of Interventions:
-Palace time 1: Edification of the 1st construction.
-Palace time 2: Completion then transformations of some parts of the 1st construction.
-Time of the church: the most remarkable transformations and additions most important of this time
-27 June 1964: The building became a good of the Tunisian state affected to the "Choôba of Tourbet El Bey" that used it like a room of feast and centre of formation.
-From 2000: Restoration, funding and enhancement Works, done by the Tunisian national institute of heritages.

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