Alexandria

 

corniche of Alexandria

Alexandria is considered the second largest city in Egypt, which is too similar to the cities of the Mediterranean its cultural heritage and atmosphere make it diverse from the rest of the country, although it is from Cairo only 225 km

"The Great Alexander "  found it in 331 BC. it became capital of Egypt Greek Romanian, it has got  a terrific cultural position .the symbol of  "Pharos" beacon , this  beacon is legendary which was one of the Seven Wonders .Alexandria was the scene of a prominent love story between the "Cleopatra and Mark Antony," it was also  the center of science and knowledge in the ancient world.

But ancient Alexandria dropped and dropped after that, due to (Napoleon coming), he found it as a small populated fishing village. With the beginning of the nineteenth century Alexandria played a new turn as a center for the expansion of Egypt's commercial and maritime, it was immortalized in some books and was settled by generations of immigrants from Greece, Italy and the east and made it a global center for trade and  culture, was described " "Lawrence Durrell "as" the capital city of (European Asia) "and today the implications of each of those previous ages are still remaining.