Cairo

Licensing Lightbox About Contact Guestbook

The city of Cairo lies on the Nile river in northern Egypt. With 6.8 million inhabitants Cairo is the largest city of Egypt and its capital. Cairo's history dates back to 2200 BC, when Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt, was founded there. Due to its strategic location just upstream from the Nile delta, the area continued to play a key role over the centuries. Present day Cairo dates back to the 10th century. Near Cairo are the famous pyramids of Giza and Saqqara and in the city itself there is the Egyptian National Museum, full of archaeological artifacts. Cairo suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic.


Views and Panoramas 3 panorama views of Cairo.	Islamic Cairo 29 photos of Islamic Cairo, a huge area with over 800 listed monuments, many dating back to medieval times.	The Citadel 17 photos of the Citadel, a fortified area on top of a hill in Cairo	Egyptian National Museum 89 photos of items and artefacts on display in the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo


Central Cairo 21 photos of the area around Midan Tahrir and Midan Talaat Harb squares.	Cairo Mosques 11 photos of the Ar Rifai, Sultan Hassan and Ibn Tulun mosques.	Giza pyramids 34 photos of the Pyramids in Gizeh (Giseh, Giza) near Cairo	Memphis 16 photos of Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt during the pharaonic time

Other Egypt galleries: Mediterranean Sea coast ▪ Pyramids ▪ Egyptian National Museum ▪ Upper Nile Valley ▪ Red Sea Coast ▪ Sinai peninsula ▪ Western Desert ▪ The Eastern Desert ▪ Luxor ▪ Abu Simbel

Categories: Cities

Related travelogues

Egypt 2001: 11 days spent in January 2001 travelling across Egypt. Cairo, Luxor and then back 1200 Km across the western desert
Egypt 2003: a detailed travelogue of a trip to the Red Sea, Luxor, Assuan, Abu Simbel and Cairo

Page viewed 104557 times since 03.08.2006