Tanta Travel Guide, Egypt

Outline of the magnificent city of Tanta

 Tanta is a great city of Egypt that is famous for its textile and cotton-ginning industries. Flaunting off its amazing tourist destinations, Tanta is a highly admired and visited city.  

Tanta- a marvelous place to discover

Tanta is a beautiful town in Egypt that is featured with an approximate of 429,000 residents. Located around 59 miles away from Cairo and 81 miles from the southeast of Alexandria, Tanta has a large number of tourist attractions, destinations and events to flaunt. It has been found that a large number of tourists from different parts of the world love traveling to the magnificent grounds of Tanta due to the fact that the city offers a huge array of traveling and vacationing opportunities to the travelers having any type of budget.  

Popular destination

Tanta is also popular for being the cotton-ginning center apart from possessing the feature of being the major Nile Delta railroad hub. Tanta, the amazing city of Egypt, is also widely known for offering a wide variety of amazing sweets that are generally eaten during the festivals of mulid. The most famous and biggest streets in this great destination are the Al-Galaa Street, Saeed Street, Al-Nahaas Street and the Al-Bahr Street.  Being the fifth largest Egyptian city, Tanta is ideally located in the true heart of Gharbiya province, which is the capital of the governorate. One of the major universities is also located in this excellent place so that the students can have the best of the educational qualifications. It is featured with a great institute linked to the El-Azhar University, Cairo and also a medical school that is attached to the Alexandria University along with a seat of the Metropolitan of the Coptic Church.

Tanta can be conveniently reached by the Nile branch Damietta and also through the way of the northwest Birket el-Sab.

 Great tourist spots and history

Tanta also boasts off its mind blowing textile industries and cotton-ginning factories. The Museum of Tanta is considered to be a highly amazing one that contains a large number of collections dating back from the Pharaonic times to the present day. All the tourists who visit this enchanting city must see the exciting and amazing collection at the Museum and it is sure that they will not leave without giving the words of appreciation for the Museum. Tanta is also a widely admired city of Egypt due to its three exceptional annual festivals that re conducted in honor of the Ahmad al-Badawi, the revered Sufi of the 13th C. Ahmad al-Bawadi is the founder of the EL-Ahmadiah tariqah and is also buried in the central mosque of Tanta.   

In case you are planning to make this vacation of yours a truly memorable one, you can have a look at the photos and reviews of the former Tanta travelers and present locals and get to know about the top destinations and must visit spots of the Egyptian city.