A huge and richly decorated mausoleum with a golden dome and two high minarets was built for the first president of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba, a native of Monastir and a highly revered politician by Tunisians (it was he who legally banned polygamy in the country and allowed divorce).

In 1963, part of the cemetery near the ribat was allocated for the construction of the mausoleum of Bourguiba, the tomb of the first president of Tunisia, with an octagonal minaret crowned with a turret and with carved domes and buildings, purely military asymmetrical, which served as the backdrop for numerous films whose action takes place in ancient times.

The mausoleum is decorated with gold, marble, artistic tiles. Nearby, in a building with a green dome, the parents of the first president and his first wife are buried.