MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

Middle East & North Africa

De Estambul y el Nilo a las medinas de Marruecos y la Petra de Jordania: conozca primero las normas sobre los horarios de oración, la vestimenta y el Ramadán.

Foto: Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0

City guides

Empiece por una ciudad

Cada guía de ciudad incluye cronología, historias de personajes, lugares imprescindibles, fiestas y normas locales.

İstanbul

Istanbul

2 lugares

A thousand-year imperial capital spanning two continents: Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Bosphorus

القاهرة Cairo

Cairo

3 lugares

'The Victorious City': Islamic Cairo, Khan el-Khalili and the pyramids of Giza

الأقصر Luxor · 古称底比斯

Luxor

1 lugares

Thebes, 'City of a Hundred Gates': Karnak and the Valley of the Kings

أسوان Aswan

Aswan

2 lugares

Ancient Egypt's southern gateway: Nubia, Philae and Abu Simbel

مراكش Marrakech

Marrakesh

3 lugares

The 'Red City': the night market of Jemaa el-Fnaa and the old city at the foot of the Atlas

فاس Fès

Fez

1 lugares

A thousand-year-old university and a labyrinthine medina: al-Qarawiyyin and the tanneries

أبوظبي Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

3 lugares

'Father of the Gazelle': from pearling village to capital of the UAE

البتراء Petra · Wadi Musa

Petra (Wadi Musa)

2 lugares

The rose-red Nabataean city, and the Valley of the Moon to the south

GastronomíaCairo, Egypt

Koshari

Rice, macaroni, lentils and chickpeas topped with tomato sauce and fried onions — Egypt's national dish.

ClásicoNile islands near Aswan, Egypt

Aswan and the Temple of Philae

The Temple of Isis on a Nile island — ancient Egypt's last temple, on the border of Egyptian and Nubian culture.

ClásicoHistoric Cairo, Egypt

Old Cairo: Khan el-Khalili bazaar

One of the oldest markets in the Middle East, dating from 1382, where spice and copper workshops continue the commercial fabric of the Mamluk er…

The four colossi of Ramesses II on the façade of the Great Temple

ClásicoSouthern Aswan Governorate, on Lake Nasser, Egypt

Abu Simbel

Four 20-m statues of Ramesses II guard the lakeshore; in the 1960s UNESCO cut up and moved the whole temple to save it from the rising reservoir…

The forest of columns in Karnak's Hypostyle Hall

ClásicoLuxor Governorate, Egypt

Luxor: Karnak and the Valley of the Kings

Karnak's hypostyle hall of 134 columns and the pharaohs' tombs in the Valley of the Kings across the Nile — the complete story of ancient Egypt'…

ClásicoGiza Governorate, Egypt

The Giza pyramids and the Sphinx

The three Great Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure and the Sphinx — humanity's first great state project, 4,500 years ago.