Khan el-Khalili

Khan el-Khalili
Khan el-Khalili, a neighborhood of Old Cairo, which has attracted a great tour for visitors to Cairo and Egypt in general. Features Bazaars and shops and popular restaurants, as characterized by abundant numbers of tourists and a population accustomed to them.Date of Khan al-Khalili
Khan el-Khalili is one of the oldest markets in the Middle, a little over the age of 600 years, and still remains on the original architecture is unchanged since the Mamluk era and even now. Immigrated to him a large number of traders Palestinian city of Hebron and Sknoh and now has the community of the people of Hebron inhabit it and are working to trade and to them is attributed Khan el-Khalili in Cairo was called by this name proportion to its founder and is one of the princes Mamluks and was named Yarkas Khalili, a city of Hebron.If we went back to time back much will Itana Arab historian months (Makrisi) who says that Khan building large square surrounded by a courtyard and is similar to the agency, include a bottom layer of it stores, and includes the upper layers of the stores and housing, has been named this name relative to the origin Sharif (Khalili) which It was great merchants in the era of Sultan plum in 1400 AD.If the popular proverb says: "The guy runs the place Mathb", the first DBP on the ground Khan must be in Fishawy, who over the age of two hundred years, one of the oldest cafes of Cairo, and was the great writer Naguib Mahfouz of the most famous astronauts in the period the sixties of the twentieth century.Fishawy
Is one of the cafes in ancient Egypt and dates its inception in 1769.Genius of the place in Fishawy who tops the Khan can sip green tea, chattering in anything the way you want, before you begin the tour in the neighborhood antiquated and there is what is the most enjoyable of roaming walk inside the alleys and talk show take a genius to decipher cracking cases, and to a sixth sense To learn Tlassmha, Valozkh monolith threaded like a contract, overlapping bow rainbow multicolor, but did not know one yet philosophy architecture, which is built on the basis of Khan al-Khalili, the earth was paved with stone basalt black metallic, and market-roofed wood defied time and erosion, and the sun sneak shops several pose with some of the basements filled with treasures and rare artifacts, and skillfully made.

Inside Khan
If the journey began in Khan must take a look at the remaining of the (Mcherbaat) overlooking the street or warm, busy and beautiful fountains and facades and copper basins where water, which was Troy and thirsty passerby who was at the time. And require visits the neighborhood to the genius or particularly sensitive in traffic within the narrow alleys amid the hustle mythical humans and wooden chairs that stack cafe owners to attract pioneers, once the intervention of the street let go is heard words of welcome Egyptian light shade, and the words of the children of the country welcoming invites visitors and visitors to the Gap, " and Elly Mistrae watching. " Even entered one of the shops, the seller greets you with the words "Egypt Norte" is given a visitor who has experience of the world of Cairo magical and vocabulary of the language "Egypt ăäćŃĺ its people", and starts in the presentation of his goods, to Agah his smile, and his words flowing about the quality of his goods, and they are specially made for art lovers manual. Khan and dealers are experts in the art of sales, and trade and Savvy inherited from ancestors, they offer authentic and fake goods, and their fondness wondrous bargaining, as Atzmon patiently and skin to convince the customer.Khan el-Khalili neighborhood is one of thirty-eight market days was broken on the axes of the Mamluk Cairo, and Khan is located above the center of the old city cemeteries Fatimid caliphs previously.The Muizz has evoked from him (Kairouan) coffins of three of his predecessors and buried in his tomb, where he was buried and his successors also, Khalili has ordered the transfer of the graves to other places and establish a market for traders.The method, which was presented by the goods in Old Cairo where she was Taatlasq markets and are filled lanes Balhawwanat that offer the same goods at prices varying, something like Maicon exhibition lasting and continuous merchandise different, Mmajth an excellent opportunity for buyers in the selected Mairead and chooses the finest, and the haggling and bargaining to get a Stronger and cheaper.Here goods of every type and color, gold, diamonds and silver to papyrus bearing the words Hiroglovih mascots and icons and poems Ghazlah, and engravings in blue tells in shorthand amazing beautiful tale of love in the history (story Aisesoaozoris) that accept them foreign tourists.Festival merchandise
Carnival visitors and visitors neighborhood Khan el-Khalili interferes with the clothes bobble stacked shopkeepers as a kind of supply and temptation and attraction on the front of the shops, and hanging hundreds and perhaps thousands (pools) within the counters and shelves display, or in the hands of young boys offering various types of pools, each made of sowing olive and plastic and called the (morning light), and others belonged to a platoon turquoise and coral, amber and convenience, including Misna of sandalwood, say a rosary that the artisans manufactured on a small machine handy and accurate name (lathe).In the Khan el-Khalili is keen women of all nationalities to buy (the contract), which dangle from it (the Eye of Horus), and make contracts of ores various, and the customer only determine his request according to its potential financial, and here come a seller (a masterpiece) probably passed on the manufacture of hundreds of years, the day that Cairo was in the Middle Ages a great commercial center, bring the Far East goods and send them in various ways of navigation in the Mediterranean Sea. That was in the golden age of the spice trade with the country of India, Sindh and the country ride the elephants are bought and men, in the sixteenth century was transferred to Khan el-Khalili strangest market in the history of Cairo, ancient and modern, a market (slaves) who shot to fame in the East and the West, describing travelers as one of the most important markets intermingled where all nationalities.I ended that era with all Maver of the features of a great or wrinkles collapse, and we are now in a new and different era, the consideration of the tourists and visitors to the goods scattered in the quarters, and Alvatrinat on it (gift) from compelling Muizz Fatimid, and in small shops adjacent creativity traders in compaction gold jewelry, silver and copper. The scene reminds you of these shops markets of Turkey, which is called (bazaar), which occupies a huge fall under the streets of the city (Istanbul), where the streets of the entire stretch specialize in one type of goods. That the most important consideration in Mifatt Craft Khan el-Khalili is accurate handicraft, there are shops offering a necklace or bracelet by engravings and miniatures spent in engraving maker Maher days and perhaps months. The gold is gold no matter how over time or changed homelands, and foreign tourists are keen to buy silverware, but Arab tourists like gold, has crept shops of street jewelers famous Khan el-Khalili in search of (customer) high taste, it is estimated that between his hands from precious.Markets Cairo
Was in Fatimid Cairo multiple markets, and public squares constructed for the purposes of trade which is called (Caesarea) has allocated each and every one of them to sell a particular commodity, and some are selling things that bring convoys of Abyssinia, such as drugs and parrots appa, There has been a private markets for precious stones in the street Mouski , but now settled in the Khan el-Khalili, Agate and coral, emerald and turquoise and other types of stones, Indian, Ethiopian and Yemeni and attract tourists and kidnap their sight.Perfumes and incense
And swim in the space smells pretty up to tourists who cross the alley toward the street Mouski where abound Trade perfume Arab, Asian and European, here perfume King, amber, jasmine and Jasmine, hundreds and perhaps now bottles shapes and strange colors contain perfumes unfamiliar ranging in color from oil shale in the color of crude oil, and golden yellow, violet and amber mixed. And ask the dealer defies time with a smile about (Alosans), which are manufactured these perfumes from him, he said that what I see of perfume here is almost composition of the actual perfume without the addition of alcohol to remember him, and handed me a bottle containing fragrant oily texture, bright scent and said that this fragrance is deduced from a certain type of male Ghazal called Ibex musk, but this is what confuses the color violet PCO shine under the spotlight is the summary of violets, while oil amber Veffersh one type of whales called sperm whales, and whale to Evers this amber only a last throes or suffer the agonies of death.The incense has its kingdom, especially in the Khan, and people thought that the smoke Almcetkh prevents the eye and envy, and coriander are the leader of the Kingdom of incense and called the name of the people (jaw and jaw) that any of the smell go about the contract irrevocably. The visitor Khan el-Khalili, it should be him irrevocably.

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