Mursi Abul-Abbas Mosque

One of the oldest and most famous mosques which was built in Alexandria in Egypt, where the the distinctive domes distinctive shape , and the mosque is one of the most important characteristic of the area of ​​Abu Abbas in the maritime city.
Sheikh Mursi Abul-Abbas was born in 616 AH 1219 AD.

Abu Abbas grew up in an environment prepared for the religious mysticism

He studied and took the Covenant at the hands of Sheikha Abu Hassan Shazly

Abu al-Abbas stayed in Alexandria for forty-three years until he died on the year 686 AH and was buried in Alexandria Cemetery in the door of the sea. 

at 706 AH,  Sheikh Zinedine Al-Qattan , great merchants of Alexandria, built a mosque over the cemetery. Mosque overlooking the port in the eastern Al Anfoushi , A building on the Andalusian, and its marble columns and copper, and The main feature of the mosque is the style Arab and Andalusian decoration

Manesterly Palace

The ancient palace is an architectural masterpiece , built on an area of ​​1000 m 2 K-Island Cairo Hassan Fouad Pasha Manesterly (Macedonian origin) created, in the year (1851 m / 1267 AH). As the impact of history, the Egyptian government seized the palace in 1951 and has renovated and restored. The palace now hosts important cultural festivals, and concerts, and there are minors (singer Umm Kulthum Museum), and Egypt is receiving guests from around the world in the palace.

El Aqmar Mosque

Aqmar mosque is a mosque in Fatimid Cairo, and this mosque is located in the Alnahacen Street, and was built by the minister (El mamoun ben elbatayhi) by order of the Caliph , at year 519 AH (1125 AD).
Tells (Maqrizi) that the mosque was built in place of a monastery which was called (well greatness), as they used to contain the bones of some of the martyrs of the Copts.

Inscription on the entrance to the mosque

The mosque was called by that name because of the color of the white stones that resemble the color of the moon.

Porto Marina

Is a new area on the Mediterranean,  about 100 km only from Alexandria,
Full of luxurious restaurants .. And cafes overlooking the sea .. And beautiful hotels
The yacht harbor is the largest in Africa .. and includes a 1400 yacht for rent .. You can rent it per hour or more as you wish.
Come learn about the city through some beautiful pictures

Underwater archeology in Alexandria

The most important part in the history of Alexandria is the sunken royal quarter in Greek and Roman eras, as well as raised Cleopatra.
The eastern port area, comprising a large part of the wonderful heritage of the city, where the royal quarter of the headquarters of the ruler of Egypt for about a thousand years in the Greek and Roman eras, which housed the royal palaces, theater, zoo next to the magnificent streets. 

The architecture of the most beautiful buildings, groves of the world, in addition to a range of ports and the island of Antirods property, which includes the Royal Palace and the Palace reflections of Mark Antony and Cleopatra raised part of the seventh.
Many of the maps of the area show the presence of thousands of pieces of sunken columns, statues, pottery and stone blocks and ground buildings must be preserved until the day comes, which is held the Museum of aqueous astonished the world, and combines all these effects sunken.

Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt is a region located in the upper part of the territory of the River Nile in Egypt. Extend this area of ​​Giza in the north to Aswan in the south. And Upper Egypt represents the lower part of the map of Egypt, and is characterized at the fertility of its territory; so widespread in Upper Egypt sugar cane plantations. There are also aluminum factories in the town of Nag Hamadi in Qena Governorate, 

which depends on the power of the High Dam.
Tourism potential are located in Upper Egypt; deployed where the pharaohs, and the province of Luxor contains only two-thirds of the effects of the world

Nile Delta

Is the delta formed in Northern Egypt (Lower), where the Nile came out for track in the form of two branches to the Mediterranean. Damietta branch in the east and ends in Damietta and Rosetta branch in the west and ends at the city of Rosetta.It is one of the largest delta in the world - stretching from Port Said in the east to Alexandria in the west.It extends over an area 240 km on the Mediterranean coast - and is characterized by fertile Delta farmland arable at any time.The length of the Delta from north to south about 160 km. Delta and start from the bottom near the city of Cairo.Take the form of the Nile Delta triangle when viewed from above.Northern border of the Delta have been eroded because of the Mediterranean and the coastal lakes were formed then, the most important in Dakahlia Lake Manzala, Lake Burullus in Kafr El-Sheikh.Agricultural land has become less fertile after the establishment of the High Dam and farmers began to use chemical fertilizers to replenish soil nutrition.People lived in the Nile Delta for thousands of years, and they were working in agriculture for a period of not less than five thousand yearsRosetta Stone was found in the coastal town of Rashid, which is located in the western Delta, a stone that deciphering the ancient Pharonic civilization.Hundreds of birds come from all over the world in the winter to the Nile Delta. The most important gull flocksMost implants in the Nile Delta rice:Wheat - cotton - corn - Clover - fruit - pulp and other crops of the temperate zones.

Prevail in the Nile Delta Mediterranean climate with rainfall in the winter but not in large quantities. The months of July and August of the hottest months in the Delta, where the average is around 30 degrees Celsius and a maximum temperature of 48 degrees Celsius.