Day Tour to Rosetta City From Alexandria & discover the place where Rosetta Stone was found starts At 8:00 am Pickup from your Hotel in Alexandria by our expert Licensed Tour guide and start your day tour visiting part of the country life in Egypt which Calles Rosetta where life is still simple and primitive. It is 60 kilometers from Alexandria.

You will get to take a motor boat in the Nile and visit an island, the meeting point of the Nileand the Mediterranean as well as the castle where Rosetta stone was found.

In 1799, the famous “Rosetta Stone” was discovered here – a granite stele with texts incised in three languages, which made a major contribution to deciphering the hieroglyphs.

Rosetta is considered as a large open-air museum for Islamic architecture. The great number ofIslamic monuments found here does not exist in any other city, except for Cairo.

Unfortunately, most of these unique monuments are neglected, modern buildings surround them, and the unplanned urbanization also affects them badly, causing much damage. Therefore, it is necessary for a great national effort to be made to save them, in order to revive the historical character of the city.

At the end of the tour transfer you back to your hotel in Alexandria.