Cairo Tours

Cairo city, the current capital of Egypt, despite being officially founded in AD 969, its history goes back further than five millennia. Modern Cairo incorporates many different settlements, used by various empires from the Pharaohs to the Arabs. Cairo Tours includes a visit to Memphis city, which was the rule center since the unification made by Menes till the end of the archaic period and served later as the necropolis for the rulers and people of that age.

Today’s Cairo city also has the area of Saqqara included, which holds the Step Pyramid of king Zoser, built among a great mansion that served the cult of Re and both the coronation ceremonies during the king’s life and the mortuary rituals after his death. One shouldn’t miss Cairo Tours to Saqqara as it has the invention of a new shape of burial, transferring the squared single mastaba into a pyramid shape consisting of six mastabas, decreasing in size upwards.

In Cairo there are other several sites varying in their features and aspects, and this can be clearly observed through having the great Pyramids of Giza representing the Pharaonic progress, and the old churches which shows a unique collection of iconography and mosaics which represent an original feature of the Coptic Christian period. This in addition to a great number of impressive mosques built by the Muslim rulers throughout the stages of the Islamic history of Egypt, each of them has a unique design and variant ornaments that depended mainly on botanical drawings and decorative Arabic scripts in addition to the brand new architectural elements.The site of Old Cairo is best place in that aspect as there are the hanging church and the church of Mar Gerguis, the Jewish temple Ben Ezra and the first mosque of Egypt, that is of Amr Ibn al- ‘as, the great leader of the Muslim army who managed to liberate it from the persecution of the Romans.

Being in Cairo, you will be able to enjoy more Cairo tours and visit other interesting cities of Egypt such as Alexandria in the North, Luxor and Aswan in the South or even to the Red Sea amazing resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurghada and more.

 

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