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Alexandria or El Iskandariya.
The port metropolis shows Cairo a Mediterranean marked face unlike the Middle Eastern metropolis. It was regarded as the most beautiful town of Egypt and as the intellectual centre of the hellenism at times of Cleopatra. The government of Egypt wants to tie to these old heydays and has drafted an extensive urban development programme. The country is particularly proud of a sight: Since 2002 Egypt's second greatest metropolis has a "library Alexandria" again.
The ancient example was the largest document collection of the world with 700.000 scrolls and made Alexandria the scholar centre of the ancient times. The new library shall be a port for scholars from all the world and make the town even more attractive for its guests like its famous predecessor. Keyword port: It was primarily the lighthouse of Pharos next to the library which made Alexandria so famous. Only recently became off the coast of the city of remains of the palace of the Cleopatra and flat of the lighthouse found which belongs to the seven Wonders of the World of the antiquity. Furthermore the tourist finds a wealth of rewarding sights. Of 6 the port at the Nile delta is the second largest city of Egypt July 2006 page 5 with 3.87 million inhabitants to Cairo today. Alexandria was one of the large towns of the antiquity and experienced their counterfeit bill at the time at 300 in front of till in the fourth century after Christ. It then fell into a deep long sleep for one and a half millennia and was resurrected only at 1800 of Mohamad Ali.
Today a post colonial architecture runs through the urban features and the atmosphere stamps while many sights still are dating from the Greek Roman time. Alexandria is an aim popular with the Egyptians with its mild climate and the refrigerant wind in summer for a holiday. The town is still regarded as a quiet tip under European tourists - it further draws most to the graves of the Pharaonen as well as the temples at the Nile to the south. An attraction is also the Abul Abbas mosque at the Corniche which unites different elements of Islamic architecture. As an emblem of the town the Fort Quait Bay, a mameluke fortress from the 15th century, rises at the earlier location of the lighthouse of Pharos. The pompey column made of red granite is a relic from Roman time and one of the best known sights of Alexandria with almost 27 metres of height. The prime of Alexandria finally is in the Graeco Romance museum into over 40.000 exhibits documents. The museum illustrates an epoch give any information about which the Egyptian museum in Cairo does not, and house a beautiful museum garden with open-air museum. Some of the greatest "highlights" of Alexandria lie interestingly enough in growing dark like the underground town of the dead bodies, Kom El Shoqafa.
One far branched cave system over three stories in which the Alexandrines buried their dead bodies extends 20 metres under the modern port. The catacombs were discovered by chance when a donkey was sick by the ceiling and brought 20 metres in the depth down. The caves are unique plant and decoration and clarify the connection of the cultures and traditions of Egyptians, Greek and romans. Another discovery in Alexandria recently provided sensation: The archaeologist Franck Goddio discovered the legendary city of Herakleion in the port of the suburb Abu Qir in the east of Alexandria which sank in the sea 1300 years ago. The exhibition experienced "Egypt's sunken treasures" your world debut in Berlin in May 2006.
The archaeological place in the port of Alexandria is so extensive that diving friend can an archaeological diving excursion accompanied made of beechwood and the archaeological remains at the island of Pharos and the summer palace in the sub-water museum of Alexandria inspect the Mark Anton. In cooperation with UNESCO, moreover, a "usable sub-water museum" is planned. The atmosphere of Alexandria which has inspired Lawrence Durrell and numerous other writers can alive and primarily be found to the cafés and side streets today certainly. Durrells Alexandria lives - for it the capital of the memory "between illusion and reality" here. The atmosphere is so thick and the imaginary one so important in hardly another town.
