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Qalyub
Échelle(s) : [1:100 000 ]
Couverture : Égypte
Langue : français
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Egyptian Museum Cairo
Home to the world's most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities, including Tutankhamun's golden treasures.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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Qalyub
Qalyubia, Egypt · Africa
About Qalyub
Qalyub works well as a base: 15 minutes from Al Qanāţir al Khayrīyah, 18km from Citadel of Salah Ed-Din.
Qalyub is in Qalyubia, Egypt, with about 160,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Al Qanāţir al Khayrīyah, about 7 km away.
Qalyub (Egyptian Arabic: قليوب pronounced [ʔælˈjuːb]; Coptic: ⲕⲁⲗⲓⲱⲡⲉ) is a city containing a rural markaz, and an urban one. It is located in the Qalyubia Governorate of Egypt, in the northern part of the Cairo metropolitan area, at the start of the Nile Delta. In 1986, it had a population of 84,413 inhabitants,Read more
which grew to 106,804 residents by 2006, a more than average growth.
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What is there to see near Qalyub?
Within an hour or so of Qalyub: Egyptian Museum Cairo (15 km), El-Fishawy Café (16 km), Citadel of Salah Ed-Din (18 km), Grand Egyptian Museum (22 km).
Where is Qalyub?
Qalyub is in Qalyubia, Egypt, about 7 km from Al Qanāţir al Khayrīyah.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 156,363
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Egypt
- Region
- Qalyubia
- Timezone
- Africa/Cairo
- Coordinates
- 30.1792, 31.2056
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Worth the detour from Qalyub
6 notable places within an hour's drive.
cafe
El-Fishawy Café
Cairo's oldest coffeehouse, open in a Khan el-Khalili alley since 1797 and run by seven generations of one family. Naguib Mahfouz wrote parts of the Cairo Trilogy in its back rooms, under the same tarnished mirrors.
16 km · about 30 min drive
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Citadel of Salah Ed-Din
A medieval Islamic-era fortification on Mokattam Hill in Cairo, built by Saladin to protect the city from Crusader attacks.
18 km · about 20 min drive
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Grand Egyptian Museum
The world's largest archaeological museum, built near the Pyramids of Giza to house the complete Tutankhamun collection and over 100,000 artifacts.
22 km · about 25 min drive
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Pyramids of Giza
The last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, these 4,500-year-old pyramids are Egypt's most iconic monuments.
23 km · about 25 min drive
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Great Sphinx of Giza
Colossal limestone statue with the body of a lion and a human head, guarding the Giza pyramid complex.
24 km · about 25 min drive
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