Egypt
Times Online (Karen Robinson)
- Development: Avenue Of The Sphinxes, Luxor
NPR With two good photos. Luxor is set to become one of the world's largest open-air museums when a multimillion dollar project to restore the "Sphinx Alley" is complete in March, the governor of Luxor, Samir Farag, said Sunday. The project to restore...
- Luxor City Development Project
Egypt State Information Service Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif held Thursday 14/2/2008 a meeting to review the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Plan for the City of Luxor. During the meeting, Nazif followed up the renovation process of the...
- More Re Qurna Relocation
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7166A lengthy article about the relocation of the inhabitants of Qurna on the West Bank at Luxor, in order to provide access to archaeological sites. It repeats much of what has already been said, emphasising...
- Mubarak Opens Projects In Luxor
http://www.gom.com.eg/gazette/home/detail_2_22.shtml"President Hosni Mubarak yesterday opened several projects in Luxor, including the Mubarak Egyptian Heritage Centre, Luxor’s modernised railway station and airport road. The President was briefed on...
- Words From The Governor
The governor of Luxor Samir Farag defends the demolition taking place to build the avenue of rams. Governor Farag said at a Lions club symposium, "No one can scare me. No one is more important than the government, and I will not be threatened by the media...
Egypt
Luxor's holiday temples of boom
Times Online (Karen Robinson)
Apart from the opening paragraphs about the redevelopment of Luxor this article is about property development and is essentially off-topic, but my friend Jane Akshar gets a mention so I had to include it :-)
If you want to know what it felt like to be a pharaoh, Samir Farag is the man to ask. As the governor of Luxor, on the banks of the Nile, 450 miles south of Cairo, he is presiding over a development masterplan even the most ambitious Egyptian temple-builders would have envied.
At the centre of it all is an effort to turn his city, home to almost a third of the ancient monuments in Egypt, into an “open-air museum”, with the excavation and restoration of the 3,000-year-old Avenue of Sphinxes, a die-straight 1½-mile road, flanked by more than 1,000 sphinxes, that connects the temples of Luxor and Karnak.
Yet, even as these mighty works proceed, the needs of the British seeker of sunshine property are also in Farag’s thoughts. An important part of the overall plan is El Tod. This bare plateau, six miles south of the city, with a commanding view of the Nile and its lush west bank, is to house a huge resort complex. The 600-hectare site, says Farag, will have hotels, a golf course and residential units, “all completely designed for foreigners”.
- Development: Avenue Of The Sphinxes, Luxor
NPR With two good photos. Luxor is set to become one of the world's largest open-air museums when a multimillion dollar project to restore the "Sphinx Alley" is complete in March, the governor of Luxor, Samir Farag, said Sunday. The project to restore...
- Luxor City Development Project
Egypt State Information Service Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif held Thursday 14/2/2008 a meeting to review the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Plan for the City of Luxor. During the meeting, Nazif followed up the renovation process of the...
- More Re Qurna Relocation
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7166A lengthy article about the relocation of the inhabitants of Qurna on the West Bank at Luxor, in order to provide access to archaeological sites. It repeats much of what has already been said, emphasising...
- Mubarak Opens Projects In Luxor
http://www.gom.com.eg/gazette/home/detail_2_22.shtml"President Hosni Mubarak yesterday opened several projects in Luxor, including the Mubarak Egyptian Heritage Centre, Luxor’s modernised railway station and airport road. The President was briefed on...
- Words From The Governor
The governor of Luxor Samir Farag defends the demolition taking place to build the avenue of rams. Governor Farag said at a Lions club symposium, "No one can scare me. No one is more important than the government, and I will not be threatened by the media...