Djebel Serj

Djebel Serj is located twenty kilometers southeast of Siliana and sixty kilometers north-west of Kairouan, in the middle of the ridge, halfway between Grombalia and djebel Tamsmida. It is about five kilometers wide and twenty kilometers long.

Its northern slope represents the watershed of the main wadis that feed the Lakhmess dam.

The origin of the appellation serj would come from the peculiar shape of a mountain ridge which approaches the shape of a saddle (Arabic: سرج). This rapprochement has fed many legends and myths around the formation of this singularity among the neighboring populations of the jebel.