And so my friends we will start our tour today in the glorious city of Egypt this is how we know Cairo,located in the place where the Nile valley widens and the river flows into the Delta,Cairo is the largest city in Egypt with a population of over 20 million people.Sun,dust and noise are satellites of urban life and traffic often stops in the tubes and the sand storms.However, the city of Cairo a lot of services for recreation has to offer tourists.The big Egyptian Museum has a peerless collection of Islamic architecture is a great pleasure to visit Egypt.
Downtown Cairo is the centre of city life with its shopping streets,cafes,banks and reputable restaurants.A large part of it was laid in 1866, the Khedive Ismail who liked the Paris boulevards of Paris,and many stately buildings built by European architects.
Right in the center,near the Nile,is a huge square called Liberation with great Egyptian Museum and the old buildings at Nile Hilton,a landmark for tourists,who soon bull renamed the Ritz.On the other side of the square is the old American University.Nearby lively area, known in the history of Ramesses with a wonderful train station in Victorian style.With the Cairo tower offers extraordinary views of the big city.Made in the shape of a Lotus flower,it rises to 185 meters and has a rotating restaurant and bar on the top.
And so we now talk about the Egyptian Museum of antiquities,it is located on the North side of Tahrir square,and was built in 1903 as the Cairo Museum.It was founded by the French architect Auguste Mariette, he now holds one of the world's major collections and some of the best treasures of Ancient Egypt and their out of it a lot. The new Museum is more spacious and is built around the pyramids of Giza.The collection will deepen your understanding of Ancient Egypt and help appreciate it you'll drown in the history of Egypt with the head.I assure you if you will spend to visit a minimum of 3 hours you will have a lot of emotions a more complete tour lasts 4 to 5 hours it would be Better to apply two visits,before and after visits to the Nile temples.Some of the most valuable treasures are on the second floor,which displays all the items recovered by Howard Carter from the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, Is the Only undisturbed tomb of the Pharaoh in the valley of the kings captured the public imagination around the world.At the time of death the Pharaoh was only 19 years old,and had very little time to prepare a larger tomb, but it was all filled with treasures for use in his afterlife.In past years, the entrance to the tomb was littered with debris from a nearby tomb,and that's what saved it from plunder.In the tomb you can see three sarcophagus surrounding the Royal mummy.It is made of pure gold, weighs 170 kg. There is a burial mask of the Pharaoh is also made of gold and semiprecious stones.Tutankhamun is not among them,but the authorities decided that he must return soon to his tomb in the valley of the kings,where he still rests.
Large rooms on the first floor follow the chronology of Ancient Egypt,starting with the magnificent halls of the Old Kingdom.The treasures are mostly found in the tombs,the statue of king Djoser nearly natural velicine found near his step pyramid at Saqqara.In the halls of No. 32 and 42 contain a lot of other masterpieces that will impress you is the living statue of Ka-Aper,carved from a single piece of wood.Objects from tombs it is a rich source of knowledge about the life of the ancient Egyptians and their treasure.Also in tombs on the walls are pictures of poultry and livestock for adequate nutrition of the king after death.
That is why statues of Ramses II is huge,but the Museum also has tiny sculptures such as the bust of Queen Hatshepsut.
Old Cairo, located South of the city centre,it was built on the site of a Roman fortress called Babylon in Egypt.It is the core of a significant Coptic community of Cairo.Coptic Church was founded in the beginning of the Christian era,and in our days, approximately 15% of Egyptians.The easiest way for tourists to get to Old Cairo is to hop on metro line No. 1 from Tahrir square to stop "Mar Girgis"!.Once in this peaceful enclave, there were more than 22 churches,but few of them have survived until now.Its Foundation dates back to IV, it is considered the oldest Church in Egypt.
The main attraction in Old Cairo is the Coptic Museum,located in an old beautiful Palace.These artifacts illustrate the development of art from Ancient Egypt before the Christian era.
In Cairo you can buy everything,than is famous the East,spices, perfumes,gold,silver,carpets,articles of copper and bronze,leather,ceramics.The choice of fabrics is huge and different,including the famous Egyptian cotton it is the biggest street markets. You can visit the famous Cairo camel market.You can visit rich in animal zoo or Botanical garden in Cairo,and then not expensive to take the boat-felucca on the Nile or visit the pyramids of El-Giza or Saqqara.
Favourable was the position between the valley and Delta of the Nile promoted occurrence of settlements on the territory of modern Cairo in ancient times near the water.Cairo is located a bit North of where more than 4 thousand years BC it was Memphis is the capital of the ancient Egyptian Kingdom.In periods of its history the town had two names Giza governorate and Umm al-Donga.
The climate is tropical in Cairo January temperature is +14 °C, July +28 °C. Rainfall is about 350 mm per year,in April, blowing hot dry wind.Cairo's population rapidly grew after the Second world war.Today, Cairo's population exceeds 15 million people, including about 3 million tourists from surrounding areas.In Cairo, home to about 25% of Egypt's population.International airport.In Cairo there is a large Academy,the Institute of Egypt,Cairo University,the universities of ain Shams,al-Azhar University and many other educational institutions.There are in Cairo and largest national library (about 1 million units of storage.
To come to rest and to travel to Cairo it is better from October to April.The Romans constantly for many years Cairo was called Babylon,and the Egyptians call their city Misr.
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