Egyptian Museum, Citadel, & Coptic Cairo

First, with Elegant Tours, you will take an interesting tour to discover

Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. It contains the most luxurious, largest and most expensive Egyptian art pieces in the world and the Middle East

It displays a rare collection of more than 150,000 original artifacts dating back 5,000 years, including the treasures of the golden pharaoh Tutankhamun – discovered by Howard Carter in 1921 and dating back more than 3,500 years. The most important exhibit is the golden mask, which weighs 11 kilograms of pure gold, as well as the golden sarcophagus, which weighs 110 kilograms of pure gold.

Then visit the Egyptian Museum, see Tahrir Square, where it began on January 25, 2011, and then we go to visit Salah El-Din Castle, a defensive castle dating back to the Middle Ages, which was built by Salah El-Din. Ayyubid to protect Cairo from any attacks from the Crusaders. It was built of limestone. We watch the visit of high defensive walls and huge defensive towers. Inside the citadel is the most important mosque in Egypt and the Islamic world, the Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha, which was built between 1830 e 1840. It is built of very pure marble, which is why it is called alabaster. Mosque. And you take with us the most beautiful souvenir photos in the panorama area and then return to the hotel. Lunch is included between visits at the local restaurant and then

A wonderful tour to visit Old Cairo, known as Coptic Christian Cairo, and one of the most important sites visited by the Holy Family. First, we will start our trip by visiting the famous Babylon Castle dating back to the first century AD, then visiting and entering the Abu Serga Church, St. Barbara, the Hanging Church, the Old Synagogue and the Temple of Ben Ezra.