EGYPT LANDMARKS

11:12 AM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

Baron Empain Palace, an ancient palace a stunning beauty and is located in the heart of Heliopolis, Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, in a street Arabism specifically on the main road to Cairo International Airport and oversees the palace on the street Arabism and Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jabir Hassan Sadiq · designed by French architect Alexandre Marcel Marcel Alexander (in 1860 - 1928) and decorated by Georges-Louis Claude Louis Claude George (1879 - 1963) and was completed in 1911

Built by millionaire Belgian Baron Edouard Empain (September 20 1852 - July 22 1929),
who came to Egypt from India at the end of the nineteenth century, shortly after the opening of the Suez Canal, where he remained in Egypt and chose a dessert place (at the time) to build his palace in the center of suburb of Heliopolis, which Onconha near the capital Cairo and Suez as well, his choice fell on the design engineer, a Frenchman, Marcel Alexander, who shows the design of the short adapt European models and the Indian engineering exhibition in Paris in 1905 where he was impressed by the Baron and was bought to be one first building decorated Desert of Egypt New in 1911, bringing together between the two methods in the design of architects, one from the Palace of the Renaissance, especially for foreign statues and the wall of the palace, but the palace itself belonged to the Cambodian-style dome long sweetened statues of Buddha, bringing the Marble Palace from Italy, crystal from Czechoslovakia, and occupies the palace and extensive gardens A 12,500 square meters and finished construction of the palace of the world in 1911. A unique architectural masterpiece of its kind on the grounds that the only palace in the world that escapes him in the sun all day, was that the construction of the concrete base on Billy Bearings spin on the wheels so that it surrounds the palace including (every hour) to see standing in the balcony of what is going on around him and followed the sun in rotation throughout the daylight hours. Provided the palace homeworkers and Entourages and began the ceremonies and the hills and to ensure Artadh community leaders who were the focus of his concerts until the death of Baron in Belgium, in 1929 of cancer.

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2:44 AM | Posted by Mostafa Gad

A trip to the fragrance of the past among the Egyptian Antiquities Eternal ... Fort Egypt, and its wall against invasions Citadel of Salah al-Din ... The concern of later Muhammad Ali Pasha, and to Egypt and named after him after additions The Citadel of Saladin in Cairo of the most prestigious military fortresses that were built in the Middle Ages Vemoqaha strategic first-class provided by this site, including the importance of the defensive because it controls the cities of Cairo and Fustat. 

It was Sultan al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub first thought of building a castle on a hill in the sound in 572 AH / 1176, where he and the vizier Baha Eddin Al Assadi Karakus demolished mosques The graves were located on the sound so that it is building a castle, where the workers carving a trench rock and artificial separation of the cliffs on the sound increase in the vulnerability and strength Reason to build a castle that Sultan Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub removed to the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt and flipped the matter did not become a ministry in Cairo, from Dar es were still afraid of the same Shiite caliphs. It is said that the reason that prompted him to choose one's Citadel in Cairo, he was hanged meat Changing color by day and night suspended the flesh of another animal in the position of the castle has changed only after two days and nights he ordered construction .. The walls of the castle .... North walls date back to the beginning of the era of Saladin and completed its construction in the era of full and fair and has seen several additions and repairs throughout the ages until the age of Mohammed Ali Pasha. Interspersed corridor walls has a width of 90 centimeters and the corridor leading to the rooms of a narrow square each side of 2.50 meters and a height of 2.25 meters ... By Mohamed Ali Pasha, the renewal of the walls of the castle and in particular the southern wall was not only the renewal of parts of the southern wall, but the whole construction of the fence except for three towers located besides the door or gate of the mountain, Salah Salem is back on the same level of play with the walls and add slots Talith DF slots Mzagl of guns to fit with the development of defensive strategy in the nineteenth century AD And talk about the castle will not end of the architecture, doors, signs and museums .... We will talk about in detail later. And let the images speak for themselves for the Mosque of Mohammed Ali ...

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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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