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Sightseeing In :-Cairo

Cairo, Egypt’s capital, is the biggest city in Africa and the Middle East and one of the biggest in the world. It is a city with a great number of sights and monuments, that if one wishes to see everything that Cairo has to offer, it might take several weeks to finish the city’s sheer amount of interesting spots.

Cairo, or Al-Qahirah (which means “The Vanquisher”, in Arabic) was built by the Fatimid leader Jawhar Al Siqilli by order of Caliph Al Moez Le'Deen Allah on the site of the old Roman city of Babylon, near the ruins of ancient Memphis, and has been the capital of Egypt since its construction one thousand years ago. Since that time, Cairo has been expanded considerably until it has become the largest capital in Africa & the Arab world with a population of about 20 million.

Today, Cairo includes a very diverse and large number of places and spots that attest to the different eras that the city has seen and that have shaped it into the Cairo that exists now. These places include locations and monuments that adhere, mainly, to the Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic cultures.

No matter how many times you visit Cairo, and how chaotic, noisy and unpredictable it may seem to some, Cairo’s soul beautifully encompasses the sense of familiarity and tolerance of its own people and embodies the diversity of all the different people that have came to settle in it throughout its history, making a visit to it a rather life-defining experience.

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