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Cairo tourism information provided by the Egyptian
Tourism Office. "Founded on the site of
Babylon, near the ruins of ancient Memphis, Cairo has
been the largest city in Africa for centuries. Modern
Cairo encompasses many former cities and their
monuments: the pyramids of the pharaohs; early
Christian monasteries and churches; Salah al-Din's
Citadel; mosques of the Mamluke and Ottoman sultans.
Five thousand years of culture are concentrated here,
at the center of three continents.
Travel through time in a city that is a living index
to civilization. Enjoy the comforts of a cosmopolitan
twentieth-century capital. Cairo, a microcosm of the
greater world.
'The Nile does not change. Indeed I know of no place
where everything changes as much, as it does here, and
nothing is ever changed... You feel quite at home.'
Henry Adams describing Cairo, 1898
Today's skyline mixes minarets and palm trees with art
deco villas and multicolored neon - but you can still
see the sunset over the Nile. Cairo has a unique
atmosphere: both exciting and relaxed. The city pulses
with life while the Nile flows on to the sea.
'The Mother of the World' is one of the friendliest
(and safest) cities in the world: Egyptian hospitality
will ensure that, wherever you come from, you'll feel
quite at home.'...a palimpsest, in which the Bible is
written over lierodotus, and the Koran over that.'
Lady Duff Gordon on Egypt, 1865."
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