travel and tourisem: Tourism in Cairo

Tourism in Cairo

Cairo is the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the most important cities at all, the population of the city of Cairo 7,787,000 people, according to 2007 statistics, representing 10.73% of the total population of Egypt, while the population of Greater Cairo 20 million and a half million people. Inhabited by more than a quarter of the population of Egypt's population of at home and abroad 76 million and 480 thousand and 426 people, according to census 2006 [1], and population density of over 15 thousand people per square kilometer, is named historically as the city of a thousand minarets of many mosques.Foundations of several cities and the capital, the commander Muizz to open Cairo after that the foundations of the Fatimid state, has the essence of Sicilian year 358 AH (969 AD) built a wall around the three cities and the name the three cities of Cairo, and includes Cairo city of Fustat, founded by Amr Ibn El-Aas year 20 AH, the military and the city founded by Saleh bin Ali Abbasi year 132 AH, and the city of Alktaea founded by Ahmed Ibn Tulun in 256 AH, as well as neighborhoods that have taken place after the reign of Saladin, until now.Cairo is the largest city in Africa and the most populous in Africa and the Middle East. City of a province, that is, they occupy the entire area of the province of one city, at the same time maintain a large city by itself. Despite being a city is the largest but it is one of the smaller provinces of Egypt as mayor. There is also what is known as the Greater Cairo is an administrative entity comprises a semi-official addition to the city / province, city of Cairo, Giza, and some of its suburbs of Shubra al-Qaliubiya Halouansabqa in addition to the provinces and the sixth of October.

History

Known in the Pharaonic era as a group any of the beautiful port city of the sun and its suburb (hieroglyphs: Online and in Greek: Heliopolis). The capital of unified Egypt sinceKing Narmer alone since 3,200 years BC. M. For different time periods, but since the opening of the Arab capital of Egypt.

A picture of the castle in Cairo
The city of Cairo, one of the most Eastern cities, which accounted for writing and history, where known as the title of "Jewel of the East", since the age of Cairo more than a thousand years, much Vhoahid history confirms that the place of this city was the capital ofEgypt for most of its history, in the history of Egypt extends across about 50 centuries agoCairo was in the broad sense is the capital of Egypt, as it is because some people makeCairo the capital to the year 98 AD, when the children of Babylon Fortress, which are stillremnants found so far and when he came Amr ibn al-Aas to open Egypt established a new capital Fustat near the fort, and erected city that followed the military capital of the stateAlktaea Tulunid in Egypt, Cairo and then set up in the era of the Fatimid Caliph al-Muizzwhich still bear the same name until today.
Some famous names to Cairo: the city of a thousand minarets (the ancient travelers calledthis to the large number of mosques built in) and the city of Cairo and Egypt unguardedgoats.

Climate

Average monthly temperatures in Cairo
Characterized the climate of Cairo, up the temperature during the summer months andcold during the winter months, ranging average daily temperature in July (summer)between 33 ° C higher temperature and 21 ° C lower temperature, while the rate variesdaily during the month of January (winter ) between 17 ° C higher temperature and 6 ° Clower temperature. Therefore result in a breeze Nile River during the summer months a role in hypothermia in Cairo. Nevertheless, moving large numbers of the population ofCairo to resorts Egypt different that comes in the forefront of the city of Alexandria (ResortEgypt I) and the Ismailia resort closest to Cairo, which do not exceed the distancebetween Cairo and Ismailia 122 km, and the city of Port Said Mediterranean (one of the Suez Canal with European Style ), and the city would sometimes blow sirocco during the period between March and June, the wind is working to raise the average temperature byup to 14 ° C a sudden, they also reduce the moisture in the air to no more than 10%, and the inhabitants of Cairo much of minute dust particles originating from Mokattam hills andRed mountain, and during periods of activity of the movement of surface wind until they were planting the slopes of hills referred to.

TransportationTransportation in Cairo include the huge road network, there is a comprehensive network of roads linking Cairo and Egyptian cities and villages other. A new ring road surrounding the outskirts of the city Palmforeig that link for almost all areas of Cairo. There is also a very large number of bridges and bridges, the most famous bridge October 6th longest bridges Egypt, which links the city east and west. There are in Cairo railway system, Du the most important train stations in Egypt and the largest and the lines transfers to the rest of the trends being in the middle of the road for all other areas of Egypt, as Egypt is the second country in the world enters the rail system after Britain.Cairo also has the largest subway system in Africa and the Middle East is the only one in Egypt, there are two lines Qaúman third line of the completion of the current establishment and there is a tendency to extend the two lines [4]. There are also lines for the tram.
Taxi in the capital, CairoThere are public buses in Cairo as well as public transport and taxis (taxi) service in addition to the capital, taxi and small passenger buses.Cairo is famous for being one of the most cities of the world's busiest roads to the extent that some are going in the streets sometimes traffic police traffic without resorting to the traffic lights of the severity of congestion, especially in peak hours.The Cairo Airport is the most important and largest airport in Egypt and the Middle East, and away from the center of the city of Cairo, about 15 kilometers.In Cairo, there are many exchanges of wired telephone service (Egypt State No. 20 in the introduction of the service) and also three companies of mobile phone service.

TourismCairo tourist city middle-class with multiple of all aspects of tourism that may be needed by the visitor there are archaeological sites dating back to the era of the Pharaohs and the old city walls dating back to the Islamic era, the Islamic sites, Christianity and Judaism found since the entry of the different religions of Egypt, cultural districts and regions shopping famous and there are hundreds of palaces, mosques, churches, gates, historic buildings and ancient of all ages in addition to the places of art, theaters, Opera House and others, and therefore spread in Cairo, a large number of hotels and accommodations that may exceed the numbers that may exist a small country the whole, the following are some of the most important tourist sites in Cairo. [5]National Library and National ArchivesThe Egyptian MuseumThe current Egyptian Museum was designed in 1896, by the French architect Marcel ORNON, updated classic-style, which fits with the effects of old and classic, but it does not compete with the ancient Egyptian architecture that still exist, and it should be noted that the interior halls are spacious and high walls. And enters the natural light through glass panels on the roof and windows in the ground floor. The lobby of the Central Museum, is the highest part of the home, where the effects were presented as they exist in the ancient temples. The length of the building to include any future expansions, as commensurate with the requirements of ease of movement of visitors from the hall to another, the effects were distributed on two floors, the basement of which contains effects such as heavy stone sarcophagi, statues, paintings and wall reliefs. The upper floor were huge performances with specific topics such as manuscripts, statues of gods and the royal mummies and the effects of daily life and pictures of mummies and sculptures unfinished, statues, pots Greco-Roman period and the effects of private beliefs of other life, etc. The museum contains Egyptian residing in Tahrir Square the heart of Cairo since 1906 the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities old is estimated at about 136 A the effect of a pharaonic, in addition to hundreds of thousands of effects found in warehouses, but the main room is what distinguishes the golden mask of King Tutankhamun and his 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 are now working on the establishment of the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Al-Ahram in Giza, in order to facilitate the visitors and shorten the distance between the museum and the pyramids.Khan al-KhaliliOne of the old neighborhoods of Cairo, which has a large tourist attraction for visitors to Cairo, Egypt in general, is characterized by bazaars in particular and there are also shops and popular restaurants, is also characterized by abundant numbers of tourists and its residents get used to them. And Khan El-Khalili is one of the oldest markets in the Middle, a little over the age of 600 years, and still remains on the original architecture unchanged since the time of the Mamluks and until now. If we go back by time to the back lot will Italana of Muslim months Maqrizi who says that the Khan building big box surrounding the courtyard, and is similar to the agency, including a class lower than the shops, and includes the upper layers of the stores and residences, has been called by that name relative to the origin of Al-Khalili, who was the chief merchants in the the reign of Sultan plum in 1400.
Cairo Tower at nightCairo TowerCairo Tower was built between 1956 - 1961 of reinforced concrete on the design of the Egyptian lotus flower, and is located in the heart of Cairo on the Nile island of Zamalek, height of up to 187 meters, which is higher than the Great Pyramid in Giza, about 43 meters. There is at the top of the Cairo Tower tourist restaurant on a rotating platform manned spin parameters of the restaurant to see all aspects of Cairo, the Cairo Tower was built in the reign of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the costs of its creation in that time, 6 million pounds.Ancient EgyptOne of Cairo's ancient, contains Islamic Cairo and Coptic Cairo and the Fatimid Cairo and the city of Fustat, the old and the Coptic Museum, the citadel of Babylon, the Hanging Church, the Greek Church of St. George, and many of the Coptic churches of other, and synagogues and the Mosque of Omar Ibn Al and Al-Azhar Mosque Citadel of Salah al-Din, one of the most luxurious castles war, which was built in the Middle Ages and the Mosque of Mohammed Ali, a mosque inside the fort of Imam Hussein and the old quarters Kahi Ms. Zainab Al-Hussein neighborhood, so The area of ancient Egypt are the main witnesses to the great history of the city.