Tour of Historic Cairo with Al-Muizz Street, Alazhar mosque and Khan El Khalil Bazar

About this tour

Cairo’s stunning Islamic architecture has earned it the nickname ‘the city of a thousand minarets. Here, you will see the Historic Cairo before 1000 years.

Get pick-ed up from your hotel to head towards Al Muizz Street, which is a major north-to-south Street in the walled city of historic Cairo. It constituted the main axis of the city’s economic zones where its souqs (markets) were concentrated. The street’s prestige also attracted the construction of many monumental religious and charitable buildings commissioned by Egypt’s rulers and elites, making it a dense repository of historic Islamic architecture in Cairo.

One of the most iconic sections of Muizz Street known as Bayn al-Qasrayn, featuring the famous Complex of Sultan Qalawun, and behind it the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Barquq. Visit also Bab El Fotouh and many valuable monuments that you have never seen before and will never forget

Al-Azhar Mosque is the most important in Egypt and the most famous in the Muslim world. It has been a mosque and a university for more than a thousand years now.