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12:34 PM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

Royal Jewelry Museum is a museum that displays jewelry royal families that ruled Egypt, and is located in the city of Alexandria. General palace was built in 1919 in the Zizinya and is an architectural masterpiece, and an area of 4185 square meters and was goes to one of the princess Fatima al-Zahra princesses of the royal family, and has been designed according to the European style buildings in the nineteenth century and from inside the palace is decorated units Masterpieces. Turned into the Royal Jewelry Museum in 1986, and the museum housed a major collection of gold jewelry and artifacts of the top of the family owners, dating to 1805 and including the Textile rare from Muhammad Ali Pasha, even Farouk I. These jewels were confiscated by the July 23 Revolution, and was registered as a museum in 1999, and includes the museum currently has 11 thousand and 500 pieces.

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10:59 AM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

This castle is located at the end of the most western island of Pharaohs in Alexandria. And built in the place of the Lighthouse of Alexandria which was destroyed in the old 702 e after the devastating earthquake that occurred during the reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad. Began Sultan al-Ashraf Abu Al-Nasr Bey build this castle in the year 882 AH and finished construction in 884 AH. The reason for his interest in Alexandria, many direct threats to Egypt by the Ottoman Empire, which threatened the entire Arab region.

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10:53 AM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

The Pompey's Pillar of the most famous monuments in Alexandria. Built on a hill among the door Sidra Muslim cemetery knew as the current landfill column and the Golan Com Petrie archaeological sites. The average length of around 27 meters and is made of stone granite red. Held in memory of the Emperor Diocletian in the third century AD. Which is the last remaining relics of the temple Serapeum established by Bustumus. and is considered the highest monument in the world. did not specify the date of establishment of this column precisely because he is returning to the Roman era, and was told that I dedicate this column after the victory of Christianity in Alexandria.

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