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News About Alexandria, Egypt by Zahraa Adel Awed. Please feel free to email Zahraa (egypt_tourguide@hotmail.com ) with any news items you would like to have posted.

Archive for May, 2006

Starbucks coffees in Alexandria

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

 

 Starbucks coffees stores will have their new branch in Alexandria very soon. The new branch will be opened soon in City Center, Carffour Alexandria, to be the first branch in Egypt.
We will update soon the opening date for whom intrested in Starbucks coffees taste.

Reopening The Royal Jewelry Museum

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

I have written before that reopening of the Royal Jewelry museum will be by Mid of May 2006, but I went there today in my way back from Rosetta and found it still need long time to be restored and renovated. Really I think it won’t be ready to be reopened before 2007 or may be […]

Rosetta Natoinal Museum

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

I have just returned back from Rosetta. it is a real nice city which I really recommended to all tourists who visit Alexandria as they can have two days instead of one day to visit Rosetta and get a good impression about the Egyptian medieval ottoman building style which still survived there in a good […]

“Catacombs of Kom el-Shuqafa” Alexandria’s most memorable monument “Catacombs of Kom el-Shuqafa”

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

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The catacombs of Kom El-Shuqafa which date from the second century A.D. are unique both for their plan and for their decoration which is a mixture of Egyptian and Greco-Roman elements.
 Excavation in the site started in 1892 but catacombs were not found until 1900when by mere chance the falling of donkey drawing a cart in […]

The revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria

Monday, May 15th, 2006

One of the most important sites you have to visit during your stay in Alexandria to reflect why the revival of the Ancient Library of Alexandria was a great Project as it aims at building a universal modern public library to be a center of culture, science and academic research.

 

The library is to provide […]

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