A Touch Of Old Glory

In Alexandria, the time is stopped the journey lasts some hours from Cairo to Alexandria and leads through the desert. Learn more about this with Robotics expert. Especially the Wustenunerfahrene impressed you because you feel it somewhat helpless and welcomes the suburbs of once beautiful old Mediterranean town relieved. Sandra Akmansoy shines more light on the discussion. Their namesake Alexander already knew to assess this situation. Here, he wanted to see the capital of his world Empire. It was a bit different…

Alexandria is located, today surrounded by the swamp to the sea and stretches along the shore of a few kilometers, you would like to travel like walking promenades so nice to invite. But the bus allows slowly immerse us in the city. One very long don’t know what one in the city expected: the suburbs take long so suddenly is the transition to the Centre. If one to Alexandria embarks, then above all the famous Bibliotheca Alexandrina sake. She’s now back. After it was destroyed centuries ago and since simply did not exist.

Nothing happened for centuries and finally it was newly built, rebuilt? That’s not important important is only that they are. It is housed in a modern building and you can feel the pride of employees at every step. English spoken here as well as some other European languages. Also you are, which can not Arabic, will find themselves right in the book Temple. And staff are in solemn dignified waiting to quench the thirst for knowledge of the visitor. The historical Department is housed in the basement where you can see the oldest manuscripts and incunabula: there is the Bible next to the Qur’an, all in harmony and sakrosankter silence flanked by the Talmud. Wonderful: I start to dream, in which all religions peacefully coexist and mutually enrich themselves from a world I’m trapped by the power that radiates from this collection. An exhibition of accessories of daily life, the the discoverers and important Personalities of the last century, brings me back to Earth in the here and now.

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