Monday, June 20, 2011

CAIRO

Is the capital of Arab Republic of Egypt and the largest cities in Egypt and Africa is divided into three regions major tourist: Islamic Cairo, which embraces many of the Islamic monuments such as mosques, markets, palaces and walls, and the Azhar, which was built during the Fatimid caliphate, as well as a minaret as well as museums such as the Museum of Islamic Art, which located in the area of ​​the door of the creatures, which includes 80 thousand works of art represent the Islamic civilization, most notably the biggest Quran in the world, a handwritten and a group of Fatimid ceramics and drawing of the Holy Ka'aba on tile of porcelain to a group of incense burners, candlesticks, and there are museum Jawhara Palace built by Mohamed Ali and also a museum Manial Palace, built by Prince Mohamed Ali Tawfiq, the architecture model combines Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and a rare collection of manuscripts and artifacts of the Ottoman era. In Cairo, the other a Christian stockpiles area of ​​ancient Egypt, where the Church of the outstanding, which was built on the south tower of the fortress of Babylon, the headquarters of the Roman army in ancient Egypt, was built on the model Albazhelka also the Church of Abe Products Shop, where she settled the Holy Family after fleeing to Egypt and has three structures and the lobby of a 12 a column decorated with pictures of the disciples of Christ and the Church of the Virgin peace be upon them, known as the «short Reehan» and the Church of St. George, built in the thirteenth century and the Church of St. Barbara, built in the early Islamic era, and there are attractions other Christian like a tree the Virgin located Matareyah and the Coptic museum that contains books rare up to seven thousand books on art and Coptic Coptic language and history of Egypt during the Coptic period. The third section of the Cairo tourist is Pharaonic includes City Online, north of Cairo, the city of Memphis, capital of ancient Egypt, the most important landmarks the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Sphinx, and boats sun and the effects of Saqqara and Oherm Unas and the tombs of the nobles, and the effects of a dead hostage, the Statue of Ramses II and the Temple of Ptah Temple of mummification White Calf and the Memphis triad of granite and the Temple of Ramses II and the first compartment T and the effects of Abu Sir and the effects of Dahshur. In Cairo, Egyptian Museum there, which includes more than 150 thousand pieces before, and hundreds of thousands of pieces in stock. The assets of the museum's collection effects of Tutankhamun's tomb also includes a statue of King Khafre, King Menkaure and the treasures of the princesses of the Twelfth Dynasty, and in the pyramids area, the project sound and light tells the history of Egypt in several languages ​​within one hour of time, interspersed with music and other influences, and there are a number of other museums in Cairo. Bey, Sultan Al-Ghouri mosque and Amr ibn al-Aas and Ibn Tulun and Sultan Hassan and Muhammad Ali.

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