Landmarks & Culture

Landmarks of El Gomrok District

From tombs cut into the rock to Qaitbay Citadel and the mosques of Bahari: the district’s landmarks across El Gomrok, El Manshiya and El Labban.

A journey through time On the map

8 landmarks4 eras

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Ancient Alexandria

331 BC – 7th century AD

At El Anfoushi tombs of the Ptolemaic and early Roman periods were cut into the rock, blending Pharaonic, Greek and Roman art, and at the tip of the peninsula stood the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

Antiquities · El GomrokThe Anfoushi TombsPtolemaic and early Roman periods, found in 1901Five rock-cut tombs of the Ptolemaic and early Roman periods, blending Pharaonic, Greek and Roman art, found in 1901.

The Islamic centuries

7th century – 1800

The hill of Kom El Nadura goes back to the Fatimid period; Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi lived in Alexandria in the 13th century; Sultan Qaitbay built his citadel over the Lighthouse’s ruins between 1477 and 1479; and Hajj Ibrahim Terbana built his mosque in 1685.

Antiquities · El GomrokQaitbay Citadel1477 to 1479 (882 to 884 AH)A citadel the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbay built between 1477 and 1479 over the ruins of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, at the tip of the El Anfoushi peninsula.

Emergency and hotline numbers
National government complaints line	16528
Alexandria Governorate operations room (from a landline)	114
Child helpline	16000
Police	122
Ambulance	123
Fire service	180
Gas emergency	129
Electricity faults	121