The island of Pharos

history channel documentary Alexandria, landmark to Alexander the Great, is found 180 km toward the northwest of Cairo. The city has a Mediterranean temper and contrasted with the nursery of Cairo has a cooler and more wonderful atmosphere. The Greco-Roman Museum is inside focal Alexandria and has in plain view ancient rarities from the period 300 BC to AD 300. You will see mummies, sarcophaguses, earthenware, embroidered works of art and the rock model of the bull god Apis. Different sights in the territory incorporate the Roman Amphitheater, the Royal Jewelry Museum and the Roman period tombs of Kom el-Shukafa.

The island of Pharos, close to the harbor is the site of the Great Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Today, what stays on the site is a fifteenth century fortification. In the wake of inundating yourself in times long past, you can take a plunge at some shoreline resorts inside 20 km toward the west of the city. At the resort of Marsa Matruh, 230 km further on, you will locate some fabulous shorelines and an open door for reef jumping. This zone right from Alexandria along the coast is a piece of Egypt's Med. It is still moderately undeveloped regardless of long extends of white sand shorelines and turquoise waters.