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Known in the Pharaonic era name of Navarre any
port and beautiful suburb city of the sun (hieroglyphs: Online and
Baligriqip Heliopolis). And is the capital of unified Egypt since
the King Narmer alone since 3200 years BC. M. For different time
periods, but since the Arab conquest of Egypt, the capital. Cairo
has a strategic location, which enabled it to be the political
capital of Egypt over the ages, in addition to being the cultural
capital, technical, scientific and historical Arab and Islamic world

 

   

 

  

 

  

 

The city of Cairo from more cities in the Middle,
which accounted for the writing and the history where dubbed the “Jewel
of the Orient”, since the age of Cairo over a thousand years, much,
while historical evidence confirms that the location of this city was
the capital of Egypt for most of its history, in the history of Egypt
extends across about 50 centuries, Cairo was in the broad sense is the
capital of Egypt, where it is due to take some capital to Cairo in 98 AD
when the children of Babylon Fortress, which are still remnants exist
even now, when it came to Amr ibn al-Aas conquered Egypt established a
new capital, Fustat, near the fort, and erected city of the military
that followed Alktaea Tulunid the capital of the state in Egypt, Cairo,
and established in the era of the Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz, which still
bears the same name until today.

Some famous names to Cairo: the city of a thousand
minarets(So called ancient traveler to the large
number of mosques built it)And the city of Cairo, Egypt and the
goats.

Cairo governorate is located on the east bank of the
River Nile and is bordered to the north and Helwan governorates Qalubia
and the eastern and southern Helwan and the western side of the Nile and
Giza Governorate.

Cairo is characterized by moderate climate most of
the year and the average daily range of the degree of heat in July
(summer) between 22 degrees C (lowest temperature) and 34 degrees C
(higher degrees) while the rate varies daily during the month of January
(winter) 18 degrees Celsius (the highest degrees) and 9 degrees Celsius
(less so).

Can be seen that there are two seasons: hot summer from May to
October, and a mild winter from Novmbrily April.

The climate of Cairo that is also very dry, and rain falls at low
density during the winter and high humidity levels during the summer,
and sometimes subjected to Cairo some hot wind blowing dust laden during
the period between March and June is known as the sirocco.

Sights in the city of Cairo:

- Egyptian Museum:

The present Egyptian Museum was designed in 1896 by the French
Architect Marcel Dourgnon, neo-classic style that suits the ancient and
classical monuments, but it does not compete with ancient Egyptian
architecture that still exist, it should be noted that the rooms are
spacious and the interior walls are high. Natural light comes through
the glass panels on the roof and windows on the ground floor. The middle
atrium is the highest part of the home where the monuments as they were
found in ancient Egyptian temples. The length of the building to include
any future expansions, as commensurate with the requirements of an easy
flow of visitors from one gallery to another, this has been distributed
effects on two floors, the basement of which contains the heavy
monuments such as stone sarcophagi, statues, paintings and wall reliefs.
The upper floor contains the presentations of specific topics such as
manuscripts, statues of deities, royal mummies and the effects of daily
life and mummy portraits, unfinished sculptures, statues, pots
Greco-Roman period and the effects of the afterlife, and the other
contains the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square that lies the heart of
Cairo since 1906 the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities old of
about 136 thousand impact of Pharaonic, in addition to hundreds of
thousands of effects found in warehouses, but the main room is what
distinguishes the gold mask of King Tutankhamun and the treasures, the
most crowded rooms the museum. And the current museum building was one
of the oldest buildings in the world in the use of reinforced concrete,
and work is now on the establishment of the Grand Egyptian Museum near
the Giza Pyramids area in order to facilitate the visitors and
shortening the distance between the museum and the pyramids.

The most important Egyptian
museum’s holdings:

• The museum is on two floors devoted to the ground, including the
effects of heavy The upper has been allocated for the effects of light
and complete sets (such as the Group of Tutankhamun).

• The museum includes a large number of Egyptian antiquities from
prehistoric times until the end of the Pharaonic era in addition to some
of the effects Greek and Romanian. We recall, for example, from the
collection of the museum:

1 – A group of pottery (from prehistoric times).

2 – Narmer Palette (the age of monotheism).

3 – Statue of Khasekhem (family 2).

4 – Statue of Djoser (Family 3).

5 – statues of Khufu / Khafre / Menkaure (Family 4).

6 – Statue Kaabbar / statues of domestic (family 5).

7 – Statue of dwarf SNP (Family 6).

8 – Statue of Mentuhotep Nebhepetre (family 11).

9 – statues of Amenemhat I / II / III (family 12).

10 – Ka Statue of King Hor (family 13).

11 – Hatshepsut statues / Tuthmosis III (18 family).

12 – Group of Tutankhamun (family 18).

13 – Treasures of Tanis Group

Sections of the museum:

Divided according to their importance or effects the amount of
available Kalksm VI and VII, Arrangements II, III and IV were based on
chronological order and taken into account include the most important
relics in the department and other key periods in another section, and
as follows:

First Section: the effects of King Tutankhamun are
the sum of the discovery of a cemetery and one for the one time effects
amounted to more than 3500 pieces of relics of gold in addition to the
mummies.

Section II: ancient state, one of the prosperous periods in the
history of ancient Egypt, a pyramid-building period and the period of
King Cheops, a period in which the rule of the four dynasties “of the
third-sixth.”

Section III: Central State.

Section IV: the modern state, a period that the great empire of
Ramses II and Tutankhamun and Akhenaton and Merenptah and Tuthmosis

Section V: of the family “21 to 30″ no access to the entry of
Alexander the Great to Egypt.

Section VI: Department of papyrus and the currency, which were
collected by each papyri.

Section VII: Section “scarabs”.

- Khan el-Khalili:

A district of Old Cairo, which has a major tourist attraction for
visitors to Cairo, Egypt in general, is characterized in particular and
the shops there are also shops and restaurants, is also characterized by
abundant numbers of tourists and residents get used to them. And Khan El
Khalili bazaar, one of the oldest markets in the Middle, a little older
than 600 years, and still remains on the original architecture is
unchanged since the Mamluk era until now. If we go back to a sort will
be back much of the Muslim Itana months of Al-Khan, who says that the
square building surrounds a large courtyard and is similar to the
agency, including the bottom of the class shops, including the upper
classes stores and housing, was called by that name in relation to the
origin of Al-Khalili, who was the chief traders in the reign of Sultan
plum in 1400.

If the journey began in the Khan must have a look of
the remaining (tasbil) overlooking the street or warm, Osplp pretty busy
and façades and the copper basin of water that the thirsty and she told
a passerby in the time that he was. Visiting the neighborhood and need a
genius or particularly sensitive in traffic in the narrow alleys in the
throngs of people and legendary wooden chairs stacked by the owners of
coffee shops to draw crowds, and soon learns to enter the street is
heard words of welcome Egyptian light shade. If I entered one of the
shops, the seller welcomes you and begins to display of his goods, to
Agah smile, and his words flowing on the quality of his goods, and it
specially made for art lovers manual. Khan, wholesale experts in the art
sale, and trade and Savvy inherited from ancestors, and they offer
genuine and fake goods, and they have amazing passion for bargaining, as
Itzmon patiently to convince the customer.

Khan al-Khalili is one of the thirty-eight market
days of the Mamluks were distributed on the main Cairo, and Khan is
located downtown on the old cemetery of the Fatimid Caliphs previously.

The goats of the religion of God was invoked with him
(Kairouan) coffins of three of his predecessors and buried in the
cemetery, where burial is and his successors, too, has ordered the
transfer of graves Khalili to other places and the establishment of a
market for traders.

The manner in which the goods are displayed in Old
Cairo, where the contiguous markets and lanes are filled with
Balhawwanit offering the same goods at varying rates, is akin to a
permanent exhibit Maicon and sustained various goods, Mmajth an
excellent opportunity for buyers to select a Mairead and choose the
finest, and the haggling and bargaining to get Stronger and cheaper.

Here goods of every type and color of gold, diamonds
and silver papyrus bearing the words Hiroglovip and amulets, icons and
weaving poems and engravings in blue tells the amazing reduction of the
most beautiful love story in history (the story of Isis and Osiris),
which is popular with foreign tourists.

 

 

 

- Cairo Tower:

Address: on the River Nile – the island of Zamalek.

Cairo Tower was built between 1956 – 1961 of reinforced concrete on
the Egyptian lotus flower design, and is located in the heart of Cairo
on the Nile River island of Zamalek.

Height of up to 187 meters and is higher than the Great Pyramid in
Giza, about 43 meters.

There at the top of the Cairo Tower restaurant on the tourist
platform orbiting manned rotary restaurant to see the landmarks of Cairo
from all sides.

It is one of the highlights of Cairo, which is located in the area of
the island the Cairo Tower, which is an architectural masterpiece built
by the Egyptians in the form of a lotus flower symbol of Pharaonic
origin of their civilization, which is the focus of attention of world
tourists. It consists of 16 floors and stands at the base of the Aswan
granite stones that have already been used by ancient Egyptians in
building their temples and cemeteries in these days note the increasing
number of tourists who go to visit the tower and climb to the roof,
which overlooks the whole of Cairo and in particular Arab tourists who
are increasingly arriving to Egypt in this days and the journey takes an
elevator inside the tower to reach the end of 45 seconds to see when you
stand on the summit full panorama of Cairo, the pyramids, the television
building, the Sphinx, the Nile, Citadel of Salah al-Din, Al-Azhar feel
you look at the magnifying glass you will visit Egypt, all in one
moment, not only this, but it can be for the Arab family to deal with
lunch in a restaurant in 14 floor tower at a height of 160 meters from
the restaurant is circular and is centered on a focal point to see Cairo
with your family in this restaurant, which includes 19 table that can
hold five people, also there in the floor of the 15 Top cafeteria could
deal with the juices and drinks and enjoy the vision of Cairo from the
top.

- SUR stream Eyes:

Is one of the most important features of Islamic Cairo .. Was built
by Sultan Ghori 800 years ago and was the target of the wall is to
extend Citadel of Saladin water by raising the waters of the Nile
Balsoaki to the course of the fence, so that the water running up to the
castle, because the castle was the seat of power in Egypt since the
Ayyubid .. Headquarters was moved next to the Abdeen Palace

The course of the eye wall has suffered from neglect, several years
after laid off from his mission, in these days of water up to the castle
without the need for it, but now being a project to develop the fence
and return it to its former beauty and

Of course, this place does not need a special visit to him .. But you
can see if you visit the Citadel of Salah al-Din

- Mosque of Amr ibn al-Aas:

It is the first mosque in Egypt, Africa, and the fourth mosque in
Islam, built by Amr Ibn al-may Allah be pleased with him when he
conquered Egypt, which is next to the Roman .. oversaw the construction
of four companions .. It has identified 80 Sahabia kiss .. God bless
them in the design of the mosque, wonderful .. Resemble to some extent
by a nearby mosque, and was expanded several times, and the last
expansion was in the era of President Hosni Mubarak, 4 years ago and
there in the middle (fountain), or a special place to drink cold water
(old Ottoman-style) and pray there every year 750 thousand worshipers in
Ramadan Khalaf, Sheikh Mohammed Jibril, and is now visited by two young
voice in very good, us pray in Ramadan, and find a lot of Filipinos who
are studying at Al-Azhar mosque there in this during the Taraweeh

It is found in Ancient Egypt .. You can visit by riding the MRT
station and Almzul St. George

- Military Museum:

This museum was built by a decision of Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1826 was
moved from its place of origin to several other places .. To be settled
in a place where it’s located now .. Palace, a campus located in the
castle and the museum was home to the family of Muhammad Ali .. After
the British occupation of Egypt became the seat of the military governor
of the English .. Then a hospital for troops reclaimed English and Egypt
during the reign of King Farouk and became under the management of the
Ministry of Defense .. Was converted to a museum .. It contains the
history of the Egyptian army since the Pharaohs

 

- Museum of Egyptian civilization:Was created in the reign of King Farouk, and contains models,
photographs, manuscripts and paintings, artworks, and traces of the
Stone Age and the Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Coptic and Islamic world and
this museum features an Egyptian life since the dawn of history, now
being renovated and development .. And will be held before the city of
entertainment that overlooks the lake by

 

- Abdeen Palace:

A fabulous sense of the word .. This was the palace is the seat of
government the monarchy, and built on the orders of the Khedive Ismail
is now considered a complex of museums .. Means includes a number of
museums inside .. Including: silverware Museum – Museum of the Royal
Collection – Museum of Weapons – Museum of the medals – Museum of Gifts
President Mubarak – Museum of the crystal .. Etc., and you will see
wonderful things in it too

- Museum of Ahmed Shawki:

Behind the zoo in Giza .. You can one-day visit to the Pyramids, and
the zoo, and Ahmed Shawki Museum .. Because they are all short and the
distance between them

 

 

- Citadel of Salah al-Din:

It is one of the most luxurious castles built by the military in the
Middle Ages, and the first thought is to build the Sultan Saladin in
1176 castle is surrounded with a number of ancient mosques of the old
days of the Fatimid state .. Such as the Mosque of Ibn Tulun .. Mosque
of Sultan Hassan, who was an integrated Islamic University .. Rifai
mosque .. Each one of these mosques is worth the visit.

- Hdikpalosmak:

It is located in Zamalek Street Aljblaip, so some people called the
name of this garden: Garden Aljblaip In these caverns and corridors of
the park where visitors go and put the glass boxes still contain a
variety of rare fish from the Nile and marine ornamental fish, which are
reflected by the sun through the holes top, and in dark places
highlighted a professional manner, electrical scene more beautiful

Garden design fish-like, are those holes are like the two openings
behind the gills and the lobby area, and on both sides of the slots are
Zaanaftan side view corridors behind lawn and garden now has 49 fish
aquarium, and the panorama to view the stuffed fish, as a visitor sees
an explanation of how the mutation of three-dimensional fish and take a
form special help them permanent living in the water, also contains
ponds on the types of turtles that live in swamps and rivers and you’ll
find in the front garden a large tub of many predatory fish, and species
that curious visitors thickness of the pork and shark

Fish Park, and outside there are pathways between the green areas
prefer to enjoy their families, and children play in postponed, also
includes a garden of rare trees, Madagascar, Australia and Thailand

- Zoo:

One of the oldest of three parks in the world, established in 1890,
located in Giza .. Near the University of Cairo on average, very large
garden area of 80 acres!! And by 1200 of the various animals and birds,

In this garden the oldest tortoise in the world, 300-year-old .. As
well as by a number of rare animals .. Australian and live like
ostriches Hindi, Nile crocodiles and large Indian elephant and camel
with a humped

As you will see the American Eagle at the age of 125 years, and say
that the eagle was a gift from the U.S. president for one of the rulers
of Egypt for 110 years, I mean before the opening of the garden, and the
eagle her days as a young man .. He could carry a child and by a
considerable distance flight, but now you will see the signs of aging by

In the middle of the park property are the rest .. It was a wonderful
break where Sadat meets with some heads when you enter from any gate to
the gates of the park .. You will find a map of the place .. It is
better to buy in order to visit the garden in full and know all the
places, and map sold at half pounds

- Garden Maryland:

Existed in Egypt, the new .. Is very suitable for many children with
special offers .. Such as display of fish and aquaculture, the pet, the
white whale, the dolphins and inside like a theme park to theme park

- International Park:

It is a very large garden .. Internationalist named because each
state is part of the park .. Thus there are months of the trees and
highlighted features of .. You will find a special section of the UAE ..
And another to Saudi Arabia .. And Bahrain .. And another for Japan ..
For all Arab or foreign countries and is present in Nasr City, you can
visit the same day of visit the Genena Mall in front of the park.

- Al-Azhar Park:

Garden very modern .. Located on an area of 30 acres, the visitor can
enjoy lunch, sitting in the lap of Historic Cairo .. In front of him and
choose one of the restaurants available .. Select the first restaurant
with a model Arab Islamic partly air-conditioned, and the other side in
the open air .. The second option is to eat lunch in the heart of one of
the lakes industrial

- Pharaonic Village:

Title: Great Sea St. – Giza

When you enter a village believes that you have returned thousands of
years .. Community than the one you live in. From the moment you start
roaming the boat through the channels passing through the village you
find yourself completely absorbed in Ancient Egypt, wherever your gaze
directed will receive more and more of the sights and echoes of ancient
Egypt .. So you’re convinced in the end you really have traveled through
time to the remote past and fabulous, this village began to dream ..
Imagine the possibility of establishing a living museum with people
dressed in natural meanings to that which existed for seven thousand
years and it was in 1974 began planting a tree of 5000 trees that were
characteristic of ancient Egypt .. Then brought the seeds of bulrush ..
As well as birds, which was almost extinct in the world .. All this
close to the image of life in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago and
slowly began to dream come true .. Until it became the Pharaonic Village
is open for visits since 1984, and made some additions and amendments in
1992 wander far in the Pharaonic Village Vtjd group making a ship in the
same way the Pharaohs .. And others Ihnton dead .. And others make
ceramic .. And others make honey .. Etc. There is also the yacht
Nefertari, who is traveling in the Nile .. You can lunch on the back ..
and there are large gardens at home for children .. And shops to buy
souvenirs .. And restaurants .. And the Museum of Islamic .. Brady and
the Museum of

- Dream Park:

Dream City Park is one of the strongest entertainment city in the
Middle East .. Accompanied by Egyptian businessman Dr. Ahmed Bahgat
Sponsor in its design to be suitable for all groups and ages and tastes
Dream Park located in 6th of October City .. ..

- Crazy Water, said:

Water Sports, a city great crazy and designed in a fun way .. Such as
the Aqua Park water.

Location: central axis – through Oct 6 – the entrance to Sheikh Zayed

- Aqua Park:

Water Amusement Park, a city located on the Cairo-Ismailia desert
road .. Means about 20 kilometers outside of Cairo works from Saturday
to Thursday .. From 10 am to 7 pm