Streets squares and districts to visit Egypt

Several Nubian villages lie between the islands and the western shore of Aswan. The best-known (and most popular with tourists) is Gharb Sehel, opposite Sehel Island, which is partly man-made and most of the merchants don't live there... Gharb Assouan, on the western shore, is older and a real place of habitation, accessible by motorboat, or Sehel on the eponymous island. Here you can visit real settlements where crocodiles are the lucky charm of the house. The most beautiful village is on Elephantine Island, where the murals are real masterpieces.

This place was redesigned during the time of Nasser, which gave him Tahrir name, which means "liberation." It is much more extensive than the small Ismailieh square which is segregated at the beginning of the rue Talat Harb. At that time, between the Nbts museum and the Qasr el-Nile Bridge, there was precisely the Nineveh el-Nile barracks, where a military garrison protected that part of the city. Today, around this place, the headquarters of the Arab League, the seat of the NDP political party which burned during the revolution of January 2011, the Egyptian museum (behind the Hotel Rameses Hilton, stands at the headquarters of television and radio), the American University in Cairo, the Geographical society (which also burned in 2011!), the mogamma., the mosque Omar Makram, a remnant of the Ismailieh Palace, most of which was destroyed. At the centre of the square is the statue of Sheikh Omar Makram, one of the great figures of Mohammed Ali Pasha, who was realized in 2002 by the sculptor Al Ibrahim in the style of the great sculptors such as Jacquemard and Cordier who delivered monumental statues in Cairo. It was in this place that the greatest demonstrations of the revolution of 2011 took place, using the symbol of liberation, but this time meant to tell President Mubarak that he had to leave; what he did. Since then, Egyptians have been in the habit of demonstrating there to demonstrate their opposition in a very regular way…

Naama Bay is the main urban feature of the city's entertainment area. A long concrete driveway and delimited by trees arranged in a line. Much of the town's reputation for quality of life is directly related to the quality of the Naama Bay boardwalks. You will naturally come to this "waterfront" which is the entire length of Naama Bay. The languid and sustained glances that are cast upon it make it the first meeting place of the city. Beware of the gigolos, though..

The «high dam» is located a few kilometres upstream from the river. Its construction began in 1960, following bilateral agreements between the Sudan and Egypt on the use of the 32 billion cubic metres of water that the 1929 agreements had left free.

The construction was entrusted to Soviet engineers; the work was completed in 1972. Its length is 3 600 m, its height of 111 m, with a thickness of 980 m. The dam is the centrepiece of the energy independence of the country whose electricity production exceeds its consumption.

However, different problems arise. Ethiopian and Sudanese silt deposited at the bottom of Lake Nasser and will require soon to be désensablé. The lake water reservoir could decrease if riparian countries in the Nile upstream use more water for irrigation of their land.

Nubia, which stretched south of the first cataracts, was inundated with lake waters. The population was relocated between Kôm-Ombo and Aswan, creating ethnic problems. Today, the pride of the Nubian people generates the development of clean tourism around their musical culture, culinary culture and traditions.

It's fun to look at a map of Cairo from the Guide Joanne of 1900, or a good old Baedeker of 1908, to find the correspondence between the Cairo of today and the city of a century ago. At that time, Ramses Square and Ramses Avenue, which runs from behind the Egyptian Museum to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, did not exist. Instead, there is a canal, the Ismaïleya Canal, which the Khedive had dug between 1864 and 1866 to provide fresh water for the digging of the Suez Canal. On the south side of the canal is a small square called Bab el-Hadid. The canal was finally filled in in 1921, while the adjacent districts of Fagalla and Abbasseyah had already been built.

The firstrailway station was inaugurated in 1856, just as the first rail link between Cairo and Alexandria was being completed, and a bridge linked the two banks of the canal. The present central station was built between 1891 and 1893, in neo-Arabic style and decorated with blue ceramics; it is close to the Railway Museum. In 1958, it served as the location for Youssef Chahine's film Central Station. The station was renovated again in 2011.

The terminus of the tramway to Heliopolis is on the same side of the avenue; the line was created in 1909 to link Cairo to the new city built by Baron Empain.

The el-Fath mosque was completed in 1990. It is close to late ^19th-century arcaded buildings flanking Rue Clot Bey, named after the famous physician to the Pasha of Egypt, and opened in 1872 to link the station to Avenue Mohammed Ali.

Ramses Square and Avenue lost the meaning of their name in July 2006, after the removal of the monumental statue of the Pharaoh, seriously threatened by pollution from the street and the 6-Octobre auto-bridge built in 1970, through which hundreds of thousands of cars pass every day. The statue of Ramses II was placed there in 1954; it is now in Giza, in the great Museum of Egyptian Art, part of which is due to open soon.

To theeast of Ramses Square, in the Fagalla district, are numerous churches and the headquarters of the Armenian and Greek Catholic patriarchates, as well as renowned French-speaking schools such as the Sainte-Famille run by the Jesuits and the Collège du Daher run by the Frères des Écoles chrétiennes.

Along Ramses Avenue and el-Galaa Street, which runs parallel to it towards the Nile, Egypt's major newspapers have taken up residence: El-Goumhorreya, El-Ahram, El-Akhbar.

El Gouna is a tourist town located in Egypt, offering numerous activities and attractions for visitors. Beaches and swimming pools are popular destinations, offering not only swimming opportunities, but also music, food and an idyllic beach atmosphere. Golf enthusiasts can take advantage of the town's two 18-hole championship courses, offering spectacular mountain and sea views. Water sports are also very popular in El Gouna, with opportunities for diving, fishing and other aquatic activities. For those who prefer land sports, there are opportunities for cycling, horse-riding and other sporting activities. Excursions are also on offer, with the possibility of taking boat trips to the surrounding islands or visiting a Bedouin village or desert monastery. Families will also find plenty of activities suitable for children, as well as a wide variety of restaurants offering quality cuisine. Finally, film buffs can enjoy the Sea Cinema El Gouna, which offers a unique cinematic experience.