One of the most interesting things about Alexandria, I think, is that there is an entire, older Roman city beneath the modern one. In the few places they have dug down they have revealed Roman roads, baths, houses, streets and theatres.
A Turkish-Florentine summer palace from the 19th century. The walled gardens are beautiful, even in winter — with over 350 acres of flowers and carefully laid-out garden paths leading to a lovely private beach
In the middle of Alexandra is an unassuming stone building, almost covered in grass — beneath which is the huge underground necropolis of the Catacomb of Shouqafa.
Alexandria was the site of the ancient Mousieon, a temple of the muses, which was the center of learning and arts. Under Ptolemy I Soter, the schools here were built, and under his son, Ptolemy II, the great library was built.
