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Daily Tour
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English, Francais, German
One Day Trip to Alexandria from Cairo, Alexandria which is known as the Pearl of the Mediterranean was the greatest city of the ancient world at the time of the early Ptolemies. It remained the capital of Egypt for nearly a millennium since its foundation by Alexander the Great in 331 BC till the Arab conquest in AD 641. The city was completed under the reign of Ptolemy II (285 – 246 BC). It was designed by the Greek architect Dinocrates of Rhodes, who connected the mainland (narrow strip of land between the Mediterranean and Lake Mareotis) with the island of Pharos by a dyke “Heptastadion”, thus creating Eastern and Western Ports.
