Cairo, Egypt

Cairo - Egypt's capital and largest city of Africa, which engulfed several towns of different eras - ancient Heliopolis, Babylon, Egypt and medieval Fostat. This city "thousand minarets" and "Gates of the East", where the concentrated culture of achievement in all six thousand years of Egyptian civilization. In Arabic, the city name means "victorious".

Cairo stands on both banks of the River Nile in northern Egypt, immediately south of the place where the river flows from the valley, surrounded by desert and is divided into the sleeves, forming the Nile Delta.

The old town is located on the east bank of the River. From this point of the t... Read more