Day Tour To Alexandria City From Alexandria Hotels
Tour for one day to Alexandria from your hotel in Alexandria to visit ancient sightseeing
the Catacomb of Kom El Shoqafa, The Roman Theater, El Montazah palace and Alexandria library. Private guide and private vehicle included in Alexandria. Lunch will be served during Alexandria tour.Tour Itinerary:
Our Alexandria tour will start with pick up service from your hotel in Alexandria, where our REP will meet you with aboard reflecting your name, then by air-conditioned vehicle with your private Egyptologist guide you going to visit sightseeing in Alexandria. Alexandria was a center of Hellenism and also home to the largest Jewish community in the world. You will start your tour in Alexandria by visiting the Catacomb of Kom El Shoqafa found in 1900, dated from the second century A.D. and unique for their plan and for their decoration which is a mixture of Egyptian and Greco-Roman elements. Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa are three floors in depth and have numerous chambers cut out along passage ways. Proceed to visiting Alexandria tour to the well-preserved Roman Theatre brought to light after 30 years of excavation work underneath a Muslim cemetery. It encompasses galleries, patches of mosaic flooring and marble seats for up to 800 spectators, only amphitheatre in Egypt that was built by the Romans; and 25-meter-high granite Pompey's Pillar was constructed in honor of the Emperor Diocletian in AD 297 and rising from the ruins of the ancient and famous Serapeion. Continue Alexandria tour to Fort Qait Bey built in the fifteenth century on the site, and used some of the stones from the ruins, of the famous Pharos of Alexandria, which was built in 279 BC to a height of 125 meters and topped with a statue of Poseidon and destroyed by an earthquake some hundred years previously. Lunch will be served during Alexandria tour in local restaurant in Alexandria, with followed visiting the Library of Alexandria - one of the great cultural centers of the late ancient world and contained thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artifacts of ancient Egypt. Continue to visit El Montazah palace finished in a fantastic Turkish-Florentine style by Muhammad Ali in the 19th century and park area covered with palm trees and gazelles. Free time in Alexandria, and then back to your hotel in Alexandria.
Tour Includes:
- Pick up services by our travel REP from your hotel in Alexandria
- All transfers in Alexandria by air-conditioned vehicles
- All sightseeing tours in Alexandria as per itinerary
- Entrance fees to Alexandria sightseeing as per itinerary
- Professional English speaking Egyptologist tour guide
- Lunch during Alexandria tour at local restaurant in Alexandria
- Drop off services from your hotel in Alexandria
Tour Excludes:
- Optional tours
- Personal expenses
Day tour to Alexandria city from Alexandria hotels
Tour Guides:
All our tour guides in Alexandria are knowledgeable Egyptologist with at least 5 years experience. Also they have academic qualifications to make your tour such a success
Private groups:
We offer a private tours for Families and groups from 10 persons and over with discounted rates
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