Where to travel, travel and route planner » observation deck http://www.dankuna.com/blog Best travel, maps, GPS, weather, images, cheap hotels Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Cairo Tower, Cairo http://www.dankuna.com/blog/the-cairo-tower-cairo.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cairo-tower-cairo http://www.dankuna.com/blog/the-cairo-tower-cairo.html#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:54:12 +0000 Ella http://www.dankuna.com/blog/?p=950 [...]]]> The Cairo Tower, Cairo
The is a free-standing concrete in Cairo, Egypt. It stands in Zamalek district on Gezira Island in the , in the city centre. At 187 metres, it is 43 metres higher than the , which stands some 15 km to the southwest. The Cairo Tower was built from 1956 to 1961, reportedly to convince a sceptical world the nation had the capability to construct the . Its partially open lattice-work design is intended to evoke a plant. The tower is crowned by an and a restaurant. Cairo .

The Cairo Tower, Cairo GPS coordinates: 30° 2′ 45″ N, 31° 13′ 28″ E

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The , also called Christea Turris (Tower of Christ) by the Genoese and Megalos Pyrgos (The ) by the , is located in Istanbul, Turkey, to the north of the . One of the city’s most striking landmarks, it is a huge, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline on the Galata side of the . The tower was built as Christea Turris in 1348 during an expansion of the Genoese colony in . It was the apex of the fortifications surrounding the of Galata. The current tower should not be confused with the old Tower of Galata, an original Byzantine tower, named Megalos Pyrgos, which controlled the northern end of the massive sea chain that closed the entrance of the . This tower was on a different site and was largely destroyed during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The 66.90 (62.59 m without the ornament on top, 51.65 m at the ) was the city’s tallest structure when built. The elevation at ground level is 35 meters above sea-level. The upper section of the tower with the conical cap was slightly modified in several restorations during the Ottoman period when it was used as an for spotting fires. Istambul is best travel destinations.
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