Day trip to Ancient Alexandria from Cairo

We will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo by your private Egyptologist guide in a guided tour to Alexandria. Alexandria was a center of Hellenism and also home to the largest Jewish community in the world. You will start your tour by visiting the Catacomb of Kom El-Shoqafa found in 1900, dated from the second century A.D. and unique for their plan and for their decoration which is a mixture of Egyptian and Greco-Roman elements. The catacombs are three floors in depth and have numerous chambers cut out along the passage. Proceed to visit the well-preserved Roman Theatre brought to light after 30 years of excavation work underneath a Muslim cemetery. It encompasses galleries, patches of mosaic flooring and marble seats for up to 800 spectators, only amphitheater in Egypt that was built by the Romans. The 25-meter-high granite Pompey’s Pillar was constructed in honor of the Emperor Diocletian in AD 297 and rising from the ruins of the ancient and famous Serapeum. Continue tour to the defensive Fortress Qait Bey, built in the fifteenth century on the site, which was built in 279 BC to a height of 125 meters. Lunch will be served in local restaurant in Alexandria, with followed visiting the Library of Alexandria – one of the great cultural centers of the late ancient world and contained thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artifacts of ancient Egypt. Free time in Alexandria, and then back to Cairo to your hotel.