Author: phouka
Cairo
Cairo is…amazing, enormous, bustling, beautiful. Cairo is an enormous city, housing some 17 million people. Historic and vibrant, it’s a fascinating city to visit.
Read MoreMuseum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo
Coptic Cairo
In the southern part of the modern city of Cairo, is the Old City — a bastion of coptic christianity settled in the are of the old City of Babylon
Read MoreChurch of St George
This church is the only round church in Egypt, being built on the top of the northern tower of the original city and is part of the monastery here which is the seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria — the “coptic pope”.
Read MoreChurch of St Sergius
The monastery church of St Sergius is famous as a hiding place for the holy family.
Read MoreHanging Church
This 13th century church is built directly above the water gate and towers of the old city
Read MoreTowers of Babylon
Two roman towers — or the remain sof them — dominate the western side of the old CIty
Read MoreCitadel of Saladin
The citadel — called Al-Qala’a al-Gabal, Citadel of the Mountain), or Al-Burg — dominates the hill over looking Cairo
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