Description 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 town gradually grows to the west, seizing agricultural land adjacent to the Nile. These western areas were modeled on the Paris, the Egyptian ruler, Ismail Pasha (Ismail Pasha) in the middle of the XIX century. Here there are wide boulevards and a few relatively small parks. In the center of Cairo is situated in the middle of the Nile island of Gezira / Zamalik, where there are modern buildings, including several five-star hotels.

Old eastern part of the city is very diverse: for centuries it was built randomly, here are the narrow streets and crowded apartment buildings. If the western Cairo are mostly government buildings and modern architectural buildings, in the eastern part there are hundreds of old mosques, which can serve as a guide.