Alexandria Biography

Photo by Alexandria in Alexandria, the second largest city in Egypt, you can combine the pleasant with useful: how to indulge in the lustful beach vacation, and touch the ancient history. He founded Alexandria that, however, the name is understandable, Alexander the Great - in the year BC. It was built according to the plan of the architect Dinocrat and became the capital of Ptolemyevsky Egypt, turning into one of the most important centers of the entire Hellenistic world, which she has for several centuries.

In the IV-V centuries of our era, the decline of Alexandria began, who gradually turned her first into an important shopping center, but already local significance, and then, after the siege and capture of her by the Arabs in the year, took this status. After the conquest of Egypt by the Turks, Alexandria continued to lose significance, status and population. All paths of trade were taken to other places.

The climate in Alexandria reigns mixed - at the same time Mediterranean and tropical deserted.

This means that in winter, unlike many other cities with the Mediterranean climate, there are very few precipitation in Alexandria in winter. But the summer here is atypical-non-hungry: the temperature fluctuates at the grades of Celsius, occasionally reaching the mark of 30 with a small one. In winter, there is about 13 degrees of heat during the day, but the nights are quite cold.

You can swim here from late May to September. The beaches in Alexandria are all sandy. There are many city beaches, also have their own beaches at coastal hotels. Mostly Egyptian Arabs-Sunnites live in Alexandria, and, besides them, also Palestinians, Sudanese, Copts, Libyans, Greeks, Persians and many other ethnicities. Accordingly, there are many mosques in the city, including the rather ancients, for example, for example, attarin of the VI century, Sheikh-al-Kabari of the XI century, Sidi Gaber, al-Shatbi and al-Tartushi of the Mamlyuk era, El-Nabi Daniel of the 13th century and others, and temples of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Cathedral of St.

George, Holy Maria, Holy Maria, Holy Mark and Holy Mark and Holy Mark. Peter I Alexandria and so on, and the temples of the Alexandrian Orthodox Church, the Cathedral of St. Savva and the Assumption of the Virgin, the temples of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Assumption of the Virgin and a dozen churches; There are also ancient synagogues, however, most of them are not acting as a result of the expulsion of Alexandria Jews, and the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Jesuit, and many other religious establishments.

In addition to churches and mosques, the city has other interesting attractions, despite the fact that the most legendary - the library and the Faros lighthouse - have not reached this day, although the fort is now located on the site of the lighthouse, in which the historical museum is located. One of the most famous surviving antique monuments is the Pompey column, however, has no attitude towards the dowel of Pompey, as it was built under Diocletian.

It is also worth visiting the catacombs of Kom-el-Shukafa: a maze, consisting of many levels, anticipated by a spiral staircase and filled with statues, figured columns, sarcophages. The pompous palace of Montaza is the summer residence of Hediva Abbas Helmi.