CREDITS MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN, 1979 dir: Terry Jones Graham Chapman John Cleese Eric Idle Michael Palin Terry Gilliam

Along with This Is Spinal Tap and The (original) Producers, this has to be one of the three funniest movies ever. Well, that's my opinion, anyway.

Very naughty boy Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman) gets mistaken for the Messiah – and makes a pretty good job of the position – in the Python team's brilliant satire.

The 'Holy Land' is Tunisia, where most of the film was shot in the Ribat, the fortified monastery at Monastir, previously the setting for Franco Zeffirelliís terminally pious TV production, Jesus of Nazareth.

Monastir, with its airport, is the centre of the Gulf of Hammametís tourist coast, though the town itself is small and away from the hotel complexes. The Ribat, with its maze of walls and passages, is open to the public (admission charge).

Monty Python's Life of Brian: 'Jerusalem' city walls: The Kasbah, Sousse, Tunisia

The city walls are the Kasbah at Sousse, the major city about 25 miles west of Monastir. The Kasbah is now a museum, containing a collection of Roman mosaics.

The final crucifixion scene uses the landscape around Tataouine, the town that gave its name to Luke Skywalkerís home planet in the Tunisia-shot Star Wars, toward the south of the country.