2024

MONTAZAH AREA

Parks and gardens
A huge shady park housing a 1960s-style seaside resort with avant-garde ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

GRAVES OF ANFOUCHI

Cemetery and memorial to visit
The most interesting necropolis is tombno. 1 , with a large burial chamber ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

NILE DAMS

Works of art to see

A pleasant hour walk awaits you unless you prefer the bus. To see: the irrigation Museum.

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 Rosette
2024

BEACHES

Natural site to discover

It is one of the few places where you will find vast beaches free of charge in Egypt! You can also choose to pay for Mercury Beach or the beaches of the beaches, if you want more privacy.

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 Ismaïlia
2024

ABU EL-ABBAS EL-MORSI MOSQUE

Religious buildings
Mosque dominating the esplanade, with five domes, two white minarets and ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

NABI DANIEL MOSQUE

Religious buildings
Nabi Daniel Mosque, home to the tombs of Egyptian royalty such as Saïd ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

NECROPOLIS

Necropolis and Catacomb to visit
Alexandria necropolis, 3 km long and 1 km wide, with 40 collective tombs ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

FRENCH CITY "FARANSAWI"

Street square and neighborhood to visit
French town featuring wooden houses with balconies, opulent villas, ... Read more
 Port-Saïd
2024

EL ARABI" ARAB CITY

Street square and neighborhood to visit
French town preserving its original wooden architecture, with facades ... Read more
 Port-Saïd
2024

SHELTER ART SPACE

Art gallery exhibition space foundation and cultural center

Association created to promote the creative scene in Alexandria and support its young artists by offering a space for contemporary visual and performing arts. It is particularly keen to encourage the emergence of the underground art scene, which, like that of Beirut, is particularly fertile. Performances, workshops, exhibitions and a wide variety of events: its interactive program is aimed at a broad public. It's a place of culture, of cultures; a lively place, a vibrant place... A good place to meet Egyptian youth.

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 Alexandria
2024

WEKALET BEHNA

Art gallery exhibition space foundation and cultural center
Association, near a lively paper market, with a 12-room apartment with an ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

WORKING-CLASS NEIGHBORHOOD

Street square and neighborhood to visit
Neighborhood in a triangle formed by the canal jetty resembling orderly ... Read more
 Port Fouad
2024

FORMER MIXED TRIBUNAL

Monuments to visit
Mixed courthouse with a square Clock Tower and Moorish-inspired ... Read more
 Port Fouad
2024

BURULLUS LAKE

Natural site to discover
A large wildlife reserve with a lake where you can rent a boat from the ... Read more
 Rosette
2024

IDKU LAKE

Natural site to discover
This lake, south of the town of Idku, is the nesting place of certain ... Read more
 Rosette
2024

ABOUKIR AND CANOE

Street square and neighborhood to visit
Ancient city of Canope, not far from Aboukir, where the Ptolemies erected ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

BASTET TEMPLE

Monuments to visit
This temple, dedicated to the cult of the goddess Bastet, was the setting ... Read more
 Boubastis
2024

NECROPOLE

Monuments to visit
Ruins of the ancient city housing the cat necropolis, brick tombs, family ... Read more
 Boubastis
2024

ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAGAZIG

Museums
Museum displaying archaeological finds from the Boubastis excavations, the ... Read more
 Zagazig
2024

ATHRIBIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Archaeological site
Allocated workshops in the Tanta countryside, renowned and based on erotic ... Read more
 Tanta
2024

SITE MUSEUM

Museums
Museum dedicated to the Boubastis excavations, housing a colossal pink ... Read more
 Boubastis
2024

STATUE OF FERDINAND DE LESSEPS

Monuments to visit
Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, 6.80 m high, installed on a pedestal on the ... Read more
 Port Fouad
2024

EXECUTIVE DISTRICT

Street square and neighborhood to visit
Executive district at the end of Rue 6, home to English villas, Art Deco ... Read more
 Port Fouad
2024

ELIYAHU HANAVI SYNAGOGUE

Religious buildings
Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue with bay windows and three naves supported by ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

OTTOMAN HOUSES

Monuments to visit
2 to 3-storey Rosette houses, with imposing doorways and facades with large ... Read more
 Rosette
2024

ZAGHLUL MOSQUE

Religious buildings
An ancient El-Mangur-style mosque typical of the Delta, with a ceiling made ... Read more
 Rosette
2024

EL-MAHALLI MOSQUE

Religious buildings
Restored mosque with 99 columns supporting its ceiling, another room for ... Read more
 Rosette
2024

MOSQUE OF ABU AL-MAKARIM

Religious buildings

The mosque was built in the mid-16th century and restored in 1850. The prayer hall is supported by 24 columns in 4 rows. The shafts are reused from older monuments, as is the case in many buildings in the Delta. The ceiling of the prayer room features a central cupola. The entrance portal is comparable to that of the Hassan Nasr Allah mosque. The minaret is 23 m high and overlooks the nearby Nile.

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 Fuwa
2024

HASSAN NASR ALLAH MOSQUE

Religious buildings

The building is named after a high-ranking Mamluk dignitary who received his religious education in the mosque of Sultan Hassan in Cairo. He was buried in 1424 in the capital's northern Mamluk cemetery. The mosque was built during his lifetime and restored in 1703. The main portal, formed of three brick arches, is typical of the religious architecture of the Nile Delta region. The minaret is the only element of its architecture in the Mamluk style.

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 Fuwa
2024

AL-QINAI MOSQUE

Religious buildings
Mosque featuring a rectangular prayer hall supported by 24 reused antique ... Read more
 Fuwa
2024

OLD CITY WALLS

Monuments to visit
Two walls separated by some ten meters: a double perimeter wall and an ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

MENDÈS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Archaeological site
An archaeological site with a few ruins in the middle of a large field and ... Read more
 Tanta
2024

VICTORY MONUMENT

Cemetery and memorial to visit
This Victory Monument is a white colonnade guarded by two immobile ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

PLACE TAHRIR, PLACE AHMED ORABI AND RUE DE FRANCE

Street square and neighborhood to visit
Tahrir Square, home to the major Western consulates, and Ahmed Orabi ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

RAS EL-TIN PALACE

Monuments to visit
Imposing palace built for Mohammed Ali, with white walls, now overlooking ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

ALEXANDRIA CEMETERIES

Cemetery and memorial to visit
Alexandria's cemeteries, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, are ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

ANCIENT GARDENS

Parks and gardens
Gardens featuring statues of explorers, as well as paths and flowerbeds ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

ALEXANDRIA STAGE

Monuments to visit
Alexandria's astonishing neoclassical stadium features a main entrance in ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

SHALLALAT GARDENS

Parks and gardens
Shallalat Gardens, planted with jacarandas and home to the remains of Arab ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

COLLÈGE SAINT-MARC

Monuments to visit
A 3-storey French-speaking college, surrounded by a circular corridor, in ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

KILLI HOUSE & RACHID MUSEUM

Archaeology
Rachid Museum, housing Islamic art objects, a collection of gold coins, ... Read more
 Rosette
2024

OTTOMAN CITY AND CITY OF THE CANAL COMPANY

Street square and neighborhood to visit
Ottoman town housing a 2-storey Messageries maritimes building and a former ... Read more
 Suez
2024

CANAL COMPANY DOMAIN

Street square and neighborhood to visit
Canal company estate housing workers' houses, an Authority naval school, a ... Read more
 Port Taoufiq
2024

INDIA ARMY MONUMENT

Cemetery and memorial to visit
Monument to the soldiers who died in the First World War, located on the ... Read more
 Port Taoufiq
2024

CATHEDRALS

Religious buildings
Four historic cathedrals in Alexandria, including three south of Tahrir ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

SAAD ZAGHLOUL SQUARE

Street square and neighborhood to visit
Place Saad Zaghloul with Art Deco, Art Nouveau and neo-oriental buildings ... Read more
 Alexandria
2024

TORAHA GALLERY

Art gallery exhibition space foundation and cultural center
Association occupying a small apartment and organizing various creative ... Read more
 Alexandria