Taparura was an ancient Berber, Punic and Roman city in the location of modern-day Sfax, Tunisia.

The same Greek meaning was translated into Berber in the Byzantine era in Ksar S-Fa-Ekez which gives the current name of the city Sfax.

It covers 420 hectares of newly filled land over the phosphogypsum stack of a former Swedish-Tunisian NPK fertilizer joint-venture.

In 1985 a new development proposal was formulated that would see additional land taken from the Mediterranean and integrated as an urban park, a beach of three kilometers, as well as residential, commercial and tertiary zones.

Since 2008 after the end of the land reclamation works, the company remained idle with no significant progress in terms of planning and development.