Cairo is a large city and one of the biggest capitals in the world, It’s such a historical place that takes you back to many different eras of time, a blast from the past. south of Cairo located Giza governorate where the Ancient civilization took place and the Ancient Capital of Egypt was ” Memphis ” today after years of excavations it’s uncovered city displayed in an open air museum. Saqqara Where the oldest pyramid ever built and the first man made structure out of the stones, Dahshur where the first true pyramid was built after building the bent pyramid by engineering mistake such a peaceful site located by the edge of the desert close to the agricultural lands that the Nile river used to flood. Giza Pyramids and the sphinx one of the seven wonders.
Many layers of history was Cairo, During the Greco-Roman period Alexandria was the capital of Egypt and by the end of this civilization the Christianity has reached to Egypt and according the journey of the holy family in Egypt, Cairo had one of the sacred sites where the holy family stayed about three months in the Cave or the crypt later became the church of Abu serga that holds the oldest sacred altar in Egypt ” The Crypt “. many other Coptic masterpieces of Churches were built in the same era of old Cairo like the hanging church, St. Mark church. St. Barbara church, and the Jewish synagogue of Ben Ezra. this district remind the visitors with Jerusalem of Palestine.
The Arabic time and the beginning of the Islamic era, Egypt became a an Islamic country when Caliph Amr Ibn El’as conquered Egypt from the Romans and had a better relationship with the Egyptian Christians offering them peace and safety unlike the Romans who treated them badly that’s why Egypt still and always peaceful and the people respecting each other religions they even share all the feasts for both together. So the old Islamic civilization was many dynasties each dynasty had it’s own features of art schools Amawy , Fatimid , Ayyubid, Ottoman that you can explore in the Islamic monuments and it might take days.
So If you would like to explore the most and the must visit sites covering everything in all the historical periods Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic you can book the following best three tours in Cairo;
1 – Giza Pyramids, Saqqara, Memphis Day Tour
2 – Egyptian Museum & The Citadel Of Saladin with Mohamed Ali Mosque Day Tour
3 – Cairo Islamic and Coptic Full Day Tour