Cairo

Cairo can be described as the crucible of ancient Egypt and modern civilizations. With its modern infrastructure that blends perfectly with the monuments of the past, a journey through Cairo is really a journey back in time. Cairo has much to offer, where you can spend weeks exploring the city.

LOCATION
Cairo is located on the shores and islands of the Nile in northern Egypt, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into three branches in the lowlands region of the Nile Delta.

HOW TO REACH
A major tourist destination, Cairo is served by the Cairo international airport. It may also be accessed by the Cairo Ramses station.

The places of interest

Egyptian Museum.
The World’s premier collection of ancient Egyptian objects in the current museum was built in 1900 in a neo-classical way. A real place of discovery, the museum is daunting in its number of antiquities on display and a haven for all but those who want to study Egyptian antiquities. The most famous and popular tourist destination is the treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb. A wonderful feeling of history slips on to the visitors as a point of view for objects, statues and other objects ranging from pre-historic era to the Greco-Roman.

Pyramids of Giza.
The only vestiges of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is the country 's most famous tourist attraction and the icon that is most associated with Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza composed of a group of three pyramids, namely-Khufu’s Pyramid, Khafre’s Pyramid and the pyramid of Menkaure.

Saqqara
Saqqara is a cemetery where the noble Memphis and many pharaohs were buried. Home to many pyramids, the most famous and most visible is the pyramid of Djoser step. Other places of interest in Saqqara tombs are the bulls Apis and the astonishing relief sculptures that can be seen in the tombs around the pyramid of Teti.

Memphis.
Memphis was founded around 3100 BC, in the legendary city of Menes, the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt. Built more like a fortress rather than a city, most of it is dispersed in cultivated fields ruins, Nile silt and villages. The remains of Memphis are located mainly around the small village of Mit Rahina. It is a temple of Ptah, which contains a colossus of Ramses II. It is too Albaster Sphinx, which was carved in honor of an unknown Pharaoh between 1700 and 1400 BC. Still others include the ruins of palaces Apries.

Citadel
The Citadel of Cairo was built by Mohamed Ali, a lieutenant of the Ayyubid ruler Salah al-Din between 1176-1183 to serve as a royal residence and military barracks. Among its monuments, Hypostyle 13th/14th century mosque of al-Nasir Muhammad is a large crowd. The 16th century mosque Soliman Pasha and the mosque of Muhammad 'Ali al-Kabir, built in the 19th century indicate the rich chronological and stylistic spectrum of architecture at the Citadel.

The Coptic Museum
The Coptic Museum was founded by Morcos Smeika Pacha in 1910 AD to display Coptic monuments and in order to easily find the history of Christianity in Egypt. Spread over 8000 square meters, the museum has more than 16000 artifacts that are organized as possible in chronological order, in 12 different sections. Coptic monuments are regarded as a liaison between the ancient Egyptian art during the Pharaonic and Greco-Roman on one hand and the Islamic era, on the other.