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42 reviews 272 travel blogs 510 photos Attraction Type:
Architectural building, Religious site, Historic site, Military base/facility, Neighborhood
TravelPod Member ReviewsCitadel (Al-Qalaa) Cairo
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Just a buliding
cbridges 0 contribution Aberdeen, United Kingdom Sep 27, 2011
I had the dull pleasure of visiting Citadel, a kind of prison built by Salah Al din in the 12th century. It is included in the stories of Mohammad- ali who invited 470 mamaluke leaders to feast on specialties of Egypt but he instead trapped them in a long narrow passageway and having them slaughtered by his 2,000 strong army, one mamaluke leader survived by jumping the wall with his horse. Within the Citadel complex are the following attractions: Al-Gawhara Jewel Palace, Mohammed Ali Mosque, Police Museum, Sultan Al-Nasir Mosque, Military Museum, Carriage Museum, Archaeological Museum, Suleyman Pasha Mosque and Bab el-Azab mosque. I found all these expensive attractions completely pointless! All that they had was boards of information and old, rooms with no architectual importance, none what so ever.
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Citadel (Al-Qalaa) Cairo
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In and out of comfort
I woke up at a brisk 8am to head down to the open breakfasts market held every last Sunday of the month on Cairo's main shopping street, Aziz Abaza which runs parallel to the Nile but on the opposite side from our hotel. The walk would of been a paced 5 minute walk but Alex being an ultimate gym junkie and National Aerobics champion, oh and did I …
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Mummies, Pyramids and Chaotic Cairo
... Al-Azhar Mosque and Khan Al-Khalili. I managed to get horribly lost on the way and ended up down near the Citadel. On the way back, I passed through the Northern Cemetery which has as many living occupants as dead. More like a sprawling town ...
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Egypt - Awe and Angst!!!
... Holy family stayed in Old Cairo 4.The Valley of the Kings 5.The Temples of Karnak and Luxor 6.The Egyptian Museum in Cairo 7.The Citadel 8.Our guide who was awesome in steering us along and providing a ton of history 9.Our Tour company - this leg ...
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Cairo
... up to the northern cemetery a vast landscape of Islamic graves. Form here I walked around to the citadel that stands atop of the hill overlooking Islamic Cairo. The fortified walls inside hold two mosques amongst other things. From here I then headed ...
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Middle school fantasy come true- PYRAMIDS
... discounts. I'm so angry, but such is life. I came trudging back to the hostel and went to the Citadel, a major tourist spot in Islamic Cairo. LP described it as if it were really lame and "underwhelming", but I did not find it so. Maybe I ...
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Into the chaos that is Cairo
... twists and turns, I was spat out of the bazaar at its southern end. My next stop on the city tour was The Citadel. Founded by the legendary Saladin in the 12th century AD, The Citadel sits atop this high point of the city and includes ...
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The Egyptification of the Tall New Yorker
... my fist, pushed past him and stormed out to an explosion of laughter. For the rest of the day I meandered up to the Citadel and into glorious mosques of such an astonishing detail and scale that they rivaled the best of Istanbul's varied gems. I laid ...
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touring Cairo (religious sites and more)
... halls with patterns such as, star patterns, pentagonal patterns and rectangles. Then we visited the Mohammed Ali Citadel The mosque was built between 1830-1840. This mosque is also sometimes referred to as the Alabaster ...
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Koshary and Kahlili
When Said picked us up after our Citadel tour, we asked him to find us some good but inexpensive Egyptian food for lunch. We parked in front of a little restaurant, and he told us to wait inside the car so he could order the food without being charged ...
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End of part II
· Cairo, Egypt · GMT +2hrs Every visitor to Egypt comes here, to reel at the Pyramids' baleful mass and the seething immensity of Cairo, with its bazaars, mosques and Citadel and extraordinary Antiquities Museum. It's equally impossible not to find ...
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Back in Cairo
... the Muslims in this country. The Greek Orthodox cemetary was one of the most tranquil places I have found in Cairo. Also visited The Citadel, originally built by Saladin and crowned centuries later with the Mohammed Ali mosque, an Albanian mercenary who ...
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