The Bride of the Mediterranean has a huge LIBRARY of Alexandria, which contains more than 8 million books.
Alexandria is the bride of the Mediterranean, egypt's second capital, and one of its most beautiful cities, with many important tourist and historical attractions as well as entertainment venues.
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The Bride of the Mediterranean includes the huge "Library of Alexandria", which accommodates more than 8 million books, as well as museums and archaeological sites, including The Sawari Column, Qaitbay Castle and others, which is the second most important tourist city in Egypt after Cairo.
Al Ain News is monitoring the most important landmarks in Alexandria.
1- Roman Theatre
The Roman theatre is located in Kom Al-Dikka, an ancient Roman ruin, built at the beginning of the 4th century.
2. Greek-Roman Museum
The Greco-Roman Museum displays a wide variety of antiquities found in and around Alexandria, most of which are from the Baltamy and later Roman times.
3- Park Palace
One of alexandria's most important and beautiful attractions, the Park Palace enjoys a unique location on alexandria beach, amidst stunning gardens and forests and with a magnificent architectural design.
The palace has many historical monuments dating back more than 100 years, such as the clock tower, tea stall, princess cinema and others, and is surrounded by many famous and varied restaurants that serve food from eastern and Arabic cuisines, and is therefore one of the best places to travel in Alexandria.
4- Gardens and Palace of Antoniades
Located in the Smouha district, Antoniades Palace is one of alexandria's most beautiful and oldest tourist areas, and the palace's construction dates back to the Ptolemaic period in Egypt.
Surrounded by many large gardens with its creative design and cleanliness, the palace contains many full-size marble statues of legendary and historical figures such as the Statue of Venus (goddess of beauty) and statues of Vasco de Gama, Christopher Columbus and Magellan.
5- Qaitbay Castle
One of the most important tourist attractions in Alexandria, located at the end of The Island of Pharos in the far west of Alexandria and surrounded by the sea from 3 destinations.
The castle was built in 1477 and is considered one of the oldest tourist attractions in Alexandria.
6- New Ba
Located in the Al-Shatabi area, the New Library of Alexandria is characterized by its large area and the magnificent design, and includes many centers and libraries, including the Internet Archive, the Library of Audiovisual Materials and others, as well as many museums and planetariums.
7- Alexandria Zoo
Located in the Picnic District, near Antoniades Gardens and Smouha, the picnic zoo is Egypt's second largest zoo, with its fun atmosphere and recreational activities.
The garden includes a seven-bath house, a reptile house, a waterbird lake, a children's park, a natural history museum and more.
8- Aquarium
Located on Qaitbay Street, the Aquarium houses many diverse marine animals and plants such as sea shells, fish, turtles, plants and sponges that live in Egyptian lakes and seas in general and rare ones in particular.
9- Royal Jewellery Museum
The Royal Jewellery Museum in Zizinia is one of the most attractive tourist destinations, with about 11,000 pieces of the most valuable jewellery of egypt's royal families, from the time of Muhammad Ali Pasha to the reign of Farouk I.
The museum houses a collection of antiques and jewelry of Queen Nariman, Princesses Fawzia and Faiza Fouad, as well as antiques of King Fouad and others.
10- Alexandria National Museum
The museum houses hundreds of beautiful artifacts describing egypt's times, such as the Pharaonic, Baltamy, Roman, Islamic and other times until modern times in 1952.
The Alexandria National Museum was originally a palace of the great wood merchant Asaad Pasha, and all this history made it one of the best places to travel in Alexandria.
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