Private Full day Egyptian Museum Citadel and Old Cairo Tour

Why choose this Cairo tour ?

Enjoy Cairo City Tour Visiting starts with The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which showcases Ancient Egypt in the Museum. It houses over 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display. Located in a building built in 1901, it is the largest Museum in Africa. Then visit Salah El Din Citadel. The Salah El Din Citadel is a massive complex encompassing several structures and architectural marvels. Then visit Mohamed Ali Mosque was constructed in the Ottoman style and modeled after the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, and Tour Old Cairo. This city pre-dated Cairo with many historic churches and Roman sites.

Private Full day Egyptian Museum Citadel and Old Cairo Tour

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What makes Private Full day Egyptian Museum Citadel and Old Cairo Tour a unique experience ?

Surprise Tourism representative will pick you up from your hotel, to enjoy the Cairo city tour, and visiting the most interesting tian Museum, which features artifacts from the Pharaonic period. The museum displays a rare collection of 5000 years of art which is considered the largest and most precious collection of Egyptian art in the world. Over 250,000 overwhelming artifacts are presented.

we move on to Coptic Cairo to visit the Hanging Church, Church of St. Barbara, The Hanging Church is named for its location above a gatehouse of Babylon Fortress, the Roman fortress in Coptic Cairo (Old Cairo); its nave is suspended over a passage. The church is approached by twenty-nine steps; early travelers to Cairo dubbed it “the Staircase Church”. The land surface has risen by some six metres since the Roman period, so the Roman tower is mostly buried below ground, reducing the visual impact of the church’s elevated position

The founding date of the Ben Ezra Synagogue is not known, although there is good evidence from documents found in the geniza that it predates 882 CE and is probably pre-Islamic.In 882, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria sold a church and its grounds to a group of Jews, and some 19th-century scholars have assumed that this was the origin of Ben Ezra. However, the buyers were followers of the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, and Ben Ezra was a congregation that observed the teachings of the rival Talmudic Academies in Syria Palaestina.Modern scholars agree that the 882 land sale was to a rival synagogue. Little is known about the original building. In about 1012, Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered the destruction

Lunch will be served in a local restaurant.

Coptic Cairo is a part of Old Cairo which encompasses the Babylon Fortress, the Coptic Museum, the Hanging Church, the Greek Church of St. George and many other Coptic churches and historical sites. It is believed in Christian tradition that the Holy Family visited this area and stayed at the site of Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church (Abu Serga). Coptic Cairo was a stronghold for Christianity in Egypt both before and during the Islamic era, as most of its churches were built after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century.

Khan el-Khalili is a famous bazaar and souq (or souk) in the historic center of Cairo, Egypt. Established as a center of trade in the Mamluk era and named for one of its several historic caravanserais, the bazaar district has since become one of Cairo’s main attractions for tourists and Egyptians alike. It is also home to many Egyptian artisans and workshops involved in the production of traditional crafts and souvenirs. then you will be transferred back to your hotel.

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Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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