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You will have an excellent opportunity to explore the most magnificent structures and the splendors of Islamic architecture and art with the Islamic Cairo Half-Day Tour.
Our expert guide will be waiting for you at your hotel to start your tour in a private air-conditioned car for an unforgettable adventure exploring Islamic Cairo.
Your tour of Cairo begins with the Khan el Khalili Market, which is located in the neighborhood of Al-Hussein, in the Gamaleya section, and is a great tourist attraction for visitors to Cairo. Khan Al-Khalili is a famous market more than 600 years old, named after its founder, Prince “Jarkas Al-Khalili” from the city of Hebron in Palestine, one of the princes of Sultan Barqouk, and this market is one of the 38 markets that were distributed during the Mamluk period in the axes of Cairo.
The name had a share of its importance and function, as the first syllable means Khan, meaning a store, a shop, a place for sale, and the second syllable is Al-Khalili, which is one of the Mamluk emirs, and his name is Jarkas Al-Khalili, Khan Al-Khalili, and the market preferred his name after him, and it is one of the most important places to sell handicrafts in Egypt and one of the most important tourist places as well.
After experiencing Khan El Khalili, we will start another adventure in the impressive Citadel of Saladin. Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi began the construction of this castle on Mount Muqattam in AH 572 / AD 1176 at a place that was known as the aerial dome, but it was not completed during his lifetime but by Sultan al-Kamil ibn al-Adil (AH 604 / AD 1207), who was the first to inhabit it and took it over as the king's house, and it remained the seat of government in Egypt until the time of Khedive Ismail, who moved the seat of government to the palace of the king's palace in the palace of Ismail. It remained the seat of the Egyptian government until the time of Khedive Ismail, who moved the seat of government to the palace of Abdeen, also in the Cairo area.
This majestic castle went through many historical events, as its walls witnessed several historical events during the Ayyubid and Mamluk eras and the time of the French campaign in Egypt in 1798 AD until Muhammad Ali Pasha took over the government of Egypt, where he restored its prosperity and grandeur.
After finishing your half-day trip to the Islamic Cairo, we will go back to your hotel in Cairo or Giza.
