About Safaga - presentation, information, photos and recommendations
This port is also a tourist area that consists of several bungalows and rest houses, including the Safaga Hotel, with a capacity of 48 rooms (126 beds). Having numerous phosphate mines, it is considered phosphates export center. A paved road of 164 km (101 miles) connects Safaga to Qena Northern Egypt.
The port city was known since ancient and medieval times, the goods being brought into the valley of the Nile with camels.
Safaga is also famous for Claudianus Mons - a stone quarry. These fascinating ruins of a Roman settlement is in the desert between the Red Sea and the Nile. For more than two centuries, from 68 AD to 282 AD, Bishop Claudianus surrounding mountains used to produce high quality columns and gray granite boulders known as granodiorite, the sole purpose being to adorn the Roman Empire .
Safaga | This port is also a tourist area that consists of several bungalows and rest houses, including the Safaga Hotel, with a capacity of 48 rooms (126 beds). Having numerous phosphate mines, it is considered phosphates export center
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