| Cairo |
Cairo is the capital and an international
city of 20 million. Greater Cairo extends on the banks of the River Nile
to the south of its delta. Here the Nile divides into its two
distributaries: Rosetta and Damietta. It is the city where past and
present meet. On its east side stands the evidence of 2000 years of
Islamic, Christian Coptic, and Jewish culture still flourishing to this
day. On its west side lies the Ancient Egyptian city of Memphis (Giza),
the renowned capital of the Old Kingdom and the site of the Pyramids, the
only wonder surviving of the Seven Wonders of the World. Indeed, a journey
through Cairo is a journey through time... A journey through the history
of an immortal civilization.
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| Egyptian Museum |
The Egyptian Museum was built in 1897 and
finished in 1901, in the neo-classical style by the French architect
Marcel Dourgnon and it is home to the most extensive collection of
pharaonic antiquities in the world. It has 136,000 items on display, with
many more hundreds of thousands in its basement storerooms.
you will see The golden coffin of king Tut made of pure solid gold about
110 Kg of gold decorated with precious and semi precious stones.
The Mummy Room contains a number of the royal mummies the people you
always heard of. |
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| The Facade of the Egyptian Museum which was built and
decorated in Greco Roman style . |
The golden coffin of king Tut made of pure solid gold
about 110 Kg of gold decorated with precious and semi precious stones. |
| Islamic Cairo and Citadel |
| Islamic Cairo is a very old area, surrounded
by walls dating from the middle-ages, and was once the cultural, religious
and intellectual center of the entire Arab world. Monumental buildings,
palaces, many famous mosques and religious schools, numerous markets and
the oldest university in the world (Al-Azhar) still stand witness to a
glorious past. |
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| The mosque of Mohamed Ali pasha found in the citadel of
Saladin and it is a copy of the blue mosque in Istanbul. |
Al Azhar mosque which was built by the time of the
Fatamids, it is one of the most important mosques in Egypt |
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Al Hussein mosque |
Ibn Tolon mosque, one of the oldest and unique mosques of
Egypt |
| Coptic Cairo |
Old (Coptic) Cairo (Masr al-Qadima), The
oldest part of Cairo, and predates what is now modern Cairo. It is
believed that there was a settlement here as early as the 6th century BC.
Later, the Romans built a fortress here which we know today as "Babylon",
some of these roman walls still exist today, The area consists of the
Coptic museum and also contains gardens and courtyards and the area is
surrounded by old Coptic churches.
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| St George church which was built on the top of the roman
fortress and it is Greek orthodox church. |
the hanging church which was dedicated to virgin Mary, one
of the oldest churches in the area. |
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Coptic cemetery which was built within the walls of the
fortress
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Remains of an old Greco-Roman fortress considered one of
the most important fortresses in Egypt. |
| The Cairo Tower ("al Borg al Qahira")
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| Built during the presidency of Gamal Abdel
Nasser with Soviet assistance, this 187m-high slender tower on an island
in the Nile offers spectacular views of Cairo. Its concrete lattice work
with a fluted lotus flower finial is unique. |
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The Cairo Tower |
The Cairo Tower |
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