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  • Temple of beit el-wali Aswan

    Beit El Wali | Aswan Attractions

    Ramses II carved a six-tuned stone temple northwest of Kalabsha, including a front courtyard, colonnaded hall, and Holy of Holies. The temple, made of stone, was converted into a church during Christian times. It features a carved Holy of Holies. The front courtyard walls depict King Ramses II's wars, with the right wall depicting Asians and Libyans, and the left wall showing the Nubians. These scenes are repeated on the transverse hall walls, with the king slaughtering the Libyans and Nubians on the right and left walls respectively.

  • Ahnasia | Ahnasia City

    Ehnasia, the capital of ancient Egypt

    Ehnasia, a significant city in the Beni Suef governorate, was the capital of Egypt from 2242 to 2452 BC. Established in 1944 by the Interior, it was later amended in 1965 to Ihnasia, also known as Umm Al-Kaiman, due to the presence of dunes and sand gatherings in the area. The city's history is significant in the region. The Bahnasia archaeological area spans 390 acres and houses the remains of King Ramses II's temple, including two quartz statues.

  • St. Catherine of Alexandria|st. Catherine of Alexandria church

    St. Catherine's Cathedral | Alexandria

    Alexandria Governorate, once home to multiple foreign communities, has become a multicultural city known for its historical architecture and historical significance. The city's streets, particularly in Downtown Alexandria, evoke a sense of European streets and the famous Manshiya area, which was once a gathering place for foreign communities and a commercial center. St. Catherine Cathedral, founded in 1850 in Alexandria's Manshiya district, was built on the foundations of two 1632-year-old temples dedicated to Franciscan monks.

  • Mark the Evangelist

    Saint Mark the Evangelist

    He is John, also known as Mark, whose name appears often in the epistles in the book of Acts. He was known by two names: Mark, which means "devoted to the god Mars," and John, which means "Jehovah Hanan" in Hebrew. According to the Apostle Paul, he is the cousin of the martyr St. Barnabas. St. Mark was born in Cyrene, Libya, to Jewish parents, Aristobulus and Mary, who were considered the first Christians in Jerusalem. He learned Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and was a skilled scholar in the tribe of Levi.

  • Gulf of Egyptian See| The Gulf of Suez

    About Suez Gulf, Egypt

    West of the Sinai Peninsula, on the northernmost edge of the Red Sea, lies a bay known as the Gulf of Suez. The Gulf of Aqaba is the smaller bay east of the Sinai Peninsula. The gulf was formed inside the about 26 million-year-old, comparatively tiny, but long-inactive Gulf of Suez Fault Basin. The Gulf of Suez, spanning 300 kilometers north-northwestwards, ends at the Egyptian city of Suez and the entrance to the Suez Canal. It marks the border between Africa and Asia and is considered one of the most significant bodies of water due to its location above the Jamsha oil and gas field.

  • Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor| winter palace Luxor history

    Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor - Historic Hotels

    Five stars may be found at the Sofitel Winter Palace Hotel. It was constructed in 1886 and includes 86 rooms and six suites. It is situated south of Luxor Temple on the banks of the Nile River in Luxor, Egypt. This magnificent building was constructed by the British in 1886. Throughout history, monarchs and explorers have favored the Sofitel Winter Palace Hotel, which is situated in the center of a verdant tropical garden on the banks of the Nile River. It is a peaceful haven that showcases the treasures of Pharaonic history.

Marriott Mena House Hotel | historic Hotels in The World

Facts about Marriott Mena House Hotel

  • 05 16, 2023

Marriott Mena House Cairo | 5-Star Hotel

In 1869, Khedive Ismail built the Mina House Hotel in front of the Giza Pyramids. The reason behind this was his desire to have his own rest house where he spent his time after returning from long hunting trips and meeting his guests, and this rest house overlooks the pyramids plateau and is surrounded by jasmine gardens, then Khedive Ismail expanded the rest house and prepared the pyramid street leading to it and turned the building into a palace for guests of the opening ceremony of the Suez Canal.

Over time nefarious elements in Ismail’s reign advanced, and debts piled up, forcing Khedive Tawfiq to sell the palace to a British man and his wife, Frederick and Jessie Head, who turned it into their private residence for their honeymoon and later on, they expanded the structure and named it after King Mina, the Egyptian monarch known for unifying Egypt and Nubia.

In 1885, they sold the palace to an Englishman and his wife, Ethel and Hughes Locke King, a family known for their love of ancient Egyptian antiquities, and decided to convert the palace into the Mina House Hotel, which opened to the public in 1886. During the First World War, the hotel became a headquarters for Australian and New Zealand troops and then turned into a hospital at the end of that war, and during the Second World War in 1943.

The ownership of the hotel was then transferred from the Luquet family to the Egyptian Hotels Company, which owned historic hotels such as Shepherd and Al Jazeera Palace, and with the revolution of 23 July 1952, the hotel was nationalised and its ownership was returned to the Egyptian government. The present proprietors of the Mena House Oberoi Hotel, Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh and his firm, purchased the hotel in 1971. Oberoi Hotels International, an Indian corporation, took over administration of the property in 1972 and undertook many renovations.

The hotel had 80 unique rooms and suites when it first opened, and another 30 were added in 1920. The Oberoi Group bought the hotel in 1964, and they started refurbishing it in 1972 and completed it in 1975. In 1978, construction on the garden wing commenced, adding 200 more rooms. 

In 2007 and 2008 the hotel was renovated again and the number of hotel rooms reaches 486 rooms and suites (7 junior suites and 4 master suites, each with a spacious private balcony overlooking the pyramids). Eugenie, Empress of the French, was also a cousin of Albert Victor, the sometimes Duke of Clarence, not forgetting Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, King Farouk and Queen Nazli, and a lot more.

Mina House Hotel Al Haram, which is situated right by the Great Pyramids of Giza and is encompassed by 40 acres of greenery, provides a health center, a gym as well as a swimming pool. The rooms are filled with handcrafted wooden furniture. All rooms at the Mina House Hotel are air-conditioned, beautifully decorated, come with chairs and an LCD screen for television.

Every guest room and suite comes with a large en suite fitted with a bathrobe and slippers. Breakfast is served in a dining room overlooking the garden. Mina House Hotel Giza Pyramids distances its guests only 700 meters. The concierge will arrange horse and camel riding activities to the pyramids. Hotel ideal for anyone who loves arts, history and archaeological places in Giza, which is 30 kilometers from Cairo Airport.

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It depends on your booking; you can book the breakfast during your reservation and you can also book all meals if you want. You have to contact your tour operator or your hotel to book them.

At first, it was called Al-Mansuriyyah, but then it was changed to be called Al-Qahira or Cairo. This was because it was named after the conqueror Planet Mars. Cairo has different names like "City of a thousand minarets" because it has a lot of mosques, and also "Qahirat El-Mo'ez".

The hotel offers a range of amenities including luxurious guest rooms and suites, multiple restaurants and bars, a swimming pool, fitness center, spa, business center, meeting and event facilities, and concierge services.

 

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