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Cairo Top Tours professional Egyptologist tour guide will take you throughout our Cairo day tours. You will be transferred at the beginning of your day tour to Wadi El Natroun monasteries from Cairo for about two hours by an independent air-conditioned car to Wadi El-Natrun, which has many natural and cultural elements and is one of the oldest monastic settlements in the world that highly influenced European monasticism later and where the last pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church is buried.
Historical and religious importance:
Essentially, it used to be home to about fifty different monasteries, but only four of them have survived the time and erosion elements.
Monks used to stay in those 4 remaining monasteries at the beginning of Christianity in Egypt, that we will visit: are Deir Anba Bishoi (monastery of St Bishoi), whose body is still in the monastery, Deir El-Baramus (monastery of Barmus), Deir Abu Maqar (Monastery of St. Macarius ), and Deir El-Suryani (Monastery of Al-Suryan).
After the day tour to the monasteries of Wadi El Natrun, you will enjoy your lunch then you will be taken back to your hotel in Cairo.
