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Our Cairo Top Tours tour leader will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo to usher you to meet an accredited tour guide to tour the Citadel of Saladin, it was considered one of the most strategic military forts built in the middle ages due to the first-degree strategic position of this piece of defensive importance since it’s overseeing the two cities of Cairo and Fustat.
Besides the building there is much more inside the Citadel and out of them all the most famous is the mosque of Mohamed Ali which is made of white alabaster in the style of the Ottoman mosques built in Istanbul, its layout is square, and measures forty-one meters on each side. In the center, the dome has a diameter of 21 meters and its height is 52 meters. The Citadel has seen further growth during the next 700 years since it was built by the legendary Sultan Saladin and most of it during the period of the Mamluk Sultanate. It was declared by UNESCO as the world heritage site in 1976 and is opened to the public from the year 1983.
After you have completed your Cairo Half-Day Tours to Saladin Citadel and Mohamed Ali Mosque you will be transferred back to your hotel.
