Discover Egypt: Cairo Tower Being on the top of a city like Cairo that has a vast area that is full of contradictions is quite an interesting experience. This city looks quite different from above than what one see from bellow, this famous sentence was said by Adel Emam, one of the most famous Egyptian actors, in one of his movies describing Cairo is quite expressive as the city looks quite different from above, especially from the top of the Cairo Tower. Many tourists from all over the world especially the Arabs visit the Cairo Tower when they come to Egypt to enjoy the panoramic views the tower offers of the city of the thousand minarets. The tower consists of 16 floors which were built on a huge Aswan granite base which the Pharos used to build fascinating temples and structures. The Cairo Tower became one of the landmarks of Cairo now and it is considered an architectural germ built in the shape of the most important plant in the lives of the ancient Egyptians, the lotus, as a demonstration of the old Egyptian civilization. The history of the Cairo Tower: The Cairo Tower which is considered the only future monument of this era was built between the years 1956 and it was finished in 1961 with the help of more than 500 Egyptian workers. It designed by the Egyptian Engineer Naoum Shobaib. The Tower was built out of concrete iron and it has the shape of the famous Lotus plant that the ancient Egyptians used to produce papyrus. The length of the tower is 187 meters which 43 meters higher than the great pyramid of Cheapos. It is located in the middle of Cairo at the edge of the Zamalek Island. The Cairo Tower was built in the reign of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the former Egyptian president and it cost 6 million pounds at the time it was built in the late 60s.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:59:02 +0000