Full Day Alexandria ( Private )

today, we’ll travel to Alexandria, one of the most beautiful cities on the Mediterranean Sea.

The drive from Cairo to Alexandria will take about 2 hours and 30 minutes. today, we’ll visit the Qaitbay Citadel, a beautiful 15th-century fort in Alexandria. From the top, you’ll have amazing views of the city and the Mediterranean Sea. next, we’ll visit Pompey’s Pillar, a massive ancient Roman column. After visiting Pompey’s Pillar, we will stop for photos by the famous Bibliotheca Alexandrina, inaugurated in 2002, is a magnificent modern library and cultural complex built in Alexandria, Egypt, as a tribute to the ancient Library of Alexandria. Designed by a Norwegian architectural firm, its striking circular, tilting form is meant to evoke a rising sun and the cyclical nature of knowledge.Far more than just a library, it houses millions of books in multiple languages,

The ancient Library of Alexandria was one of the most extensive and important libraries in the ancient world, founded in Alexandria, Egypt, probably during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century BCE. It was part of a larger research institution known as the Mouseion (the origin of our word “museum”), which was dedicated to the Muses. This magnificent institution sought to gather all human knowledge, containing a vast collection of papyrus scrolls (with estimates ranging from 40,000 to over 400,000 at its peak). It drew prominent scholars, scientists, and thinkers from all over the ancient world, who lived, studied, and worked there, making significant contributions to various fields such as mathematics (Euclid), astronomy (Eratosthenes, who calculated the circumference of the Earth), and literature.

After the Photo stop of Bibliotheca Alexandrina  we’ll head to one of the most famous restaurant in Alexandria Athineos restaurant , it was built in 1900.

Our last stop in Alexandria will be  Catacombs  kom alshokafa , a historical unique necropolis which is a fusion of Roman, Hellenistic, and Pharaonic art and architecture. It consists of three levels of burial chambers carved into solid rock . Afterward, we’ll head back to Cairo.