PANORAMICA
We will pick you up from your hotel to enjoy an excursion day with your personal guide, who will accompany you to Ibn-Tulun Mosque, which is one of Cairo’s longest-surviving Islamic monuments. Its simple, serene shape was completed in 879 AD for Ahmad Ibn Tulun, who made it the center of his new capital city. Then we’ll move to the Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrassa, which was designed as a place of worship and madrassa (Islamic school). Visitors can admire its scale and beauty, see its teaching areas (liwans), and view its other highlight: the mausoleum of Sultan Hassan himself. Then Followed by another big, famous mosque. Which is Al-Rifa’i Mosque. The building is located opposite the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan, which dates from around 1361 and was architecturally conceived as a complement to the older structure. This was part of a vast campaign by the 19th-century rulers of Egypt to both associate themselves with the perceived glory of earlier periods in Egypt‘s Islamic history and modernize the city. Then we will drive to the Citadel of Salah el-Din in Cairo. Where you visit Mohamed Ali Mosque, which has been considered one of the most beautiful mosques in Cairo, it is also known as the Alabaster Mosque because its outer walls have been covered with alabaster stone. Then move to Khan El Khalili Bazaar. Shops in this district are legendary for fine brassware, copper, perfumes, leather, silver, gold, antiques, etc. End your day tour with a visit to El Hussein Mosque in Cairo. The hallowed mosque is believed to be the burial site of the head of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson. At the end of the tour, our guide will transfer you back to your hotel in Cairo.