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Cheap Flights to Alexandria
Flights to Alexandria
Alexandria, an ancient seaport city, is the
second-largest city in Egypt (2006 population 4,110,015).Serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and
exports, Alexandria is also an important tourism destination.Situated along the Mediterranean Sea, the
city was once home to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (the Library of Alexandria)
-- the largest library in the ancient world.In ancient times, Alexandria was one of the most famous cities in the
world.Founded around a small paranoiac
town in 334 BC by Alexander the Great, Alexandria remained the capital of Egypt
for nearly a thousand years.Ongoing
underwater archaeological excavations in Alexandria’s Harbour reveal insights
into the city before and after the arrival of Alexander the Great, when a city
named Rhakotis existed during the Ptolemaic dynasty.Rhakotis is believed to have been a town
filled with fishermen and pirates.The
great Lighthouse of Alexandria, no longer standing today, was one of the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World.Alexandria
is also the birthplace of the famous Cleopatra, who made strategic political
moves and relationships throughout her life for the protection of her beloved
Alexandria.
Very little of the sophisticated ancient city has survived, and much of the
royal and civic quarters sank beneath the Harbour due to earthquake subsidence,
and others having been built over in modern times.Pompey's Pillar is the best-known
ancient monument still standing in Alexandria today.Located on Alexandria's ancient acropolis, it
was originally part of a temple colonnade.Constructed from a single piece of granite, the pillar is approximately
396 tonnes.The original structure was
demolished in the 4th century, when a bishop declared that Paganism must be
erased.Alexandria's catacombs (discovered
accidentally in the 1800's) are a short distance from the pillar, and consist
of a multi-level labyrinth, reached via spiral staircase.The catacombs feature dozens of chambers
adorned with sculpted pillars, statues, burial niches and sarcophagi, and a
large Roman-style banquet room where relatives of the deceased would conduct
memorial meals.Visit the Alexandria
National Museum, which contains approximately 1,800 artifacts that narrate
the story of Alexandria and Egypt.The
museum displays mummies, archaeological underwater findings, the Coptic,
Islamic and Modern eras.
Alexandria Flights
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