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Giza · Egypt Capital
In the destination Cairo and Giza.
In the photo: Giza pyramids seen from the desert, with the urban strip in the background.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
City on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Cairo, capital of Giza governorate. On the edge of the desert, southwest of the center, the plateau rises with the three great pyramids and the Sphinx, with the Grand Egyptian Museum beside them. To the south, Saqqara, Dahshur and Memphis complete the necropolis inscribed by UNESCO.
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The local experience
The pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, with the queens’ pyramids and the temples, on the Giza plateau. Khufu’s is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world still standing.
Colossal statue with a lion’s body and a human head, carved from the rock of the Giza plateau, in front of Khafre’s pyramid, beside the valley temple.
Museum on the edge of the Giza plateau, with the complete Tutankhamun collection, a monumental stairway of statues and thousands of ancient Egyptian pieces.
The necropolis of Memphis south of Giza, with Djoser’s stepped pyramid, considered Egypt’s first major stone construction, and tombs with reliefs of everyday life.
The Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid, built by Pharaoh Sneferu in the desert south of Saqqara, mark the transition to smooth-sided pyramids.
Site of the first capital of unified Egypt, at Mit Rahina, with an open‑air museum that houses a colossal recumbent statue of Ramesses II and an alabaster sphinx.
