Sights and landmarks in El Gouna

Sights and landmarks in El Gouna

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   Church of Holy Mary and Archangel Michael

   كنيسة السيدة العذراء مريم والملاك ميخائيل / Kanīsat as-Saiyida al-ʿAdhrāʾ Maryam wa-l-Malāk Mīchāʾīl

   Coptic-Orthodox church in El-Bustan just southwest of town, designed by Italian architect Alfredo Freda opened in 2004. The church has three naves and two bell towers. The paintings in the church are mostly by artist Mina El Comos Temesaus.

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   Deir Umm Duheis

   دير أبو شعر / Abū Schaʿr

   In the southeastern corner of the resort are the ruins of a Roman fort, once housing about 200 soldiers of the Ala Nova Maximiana camel cavalry unit. There were bastions at all four corners of the wall, and entrances on the northern and western sides. The latter entrance has an inscription revealing it was established in 309-311 during the rule of Aurelius Maximianus Inside the walls there were barracks, warehouses, stables, and the commander's house. During the 7th century the fort was used as a church for Coptic Christians, and later it was possibly a destination for pilgrimage.

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   Mangrove island

   جزر المانجروف

   An island, about 500 m in length, in front of the Sheraton Minamar Resort.

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   Desert Breath

   نفس الصحراء / Nafas aṣ-Ṣaḥrāʾ

   A landscape artwork, created west of the resort between 1995 and 1997 after a design by Greek artist Danae Stratou. It's made up of 89 big cone-formed pits and heaps arranged like a spiral. In the middle there was a pond, 30 m in diameter that has long evaporated. The artwork has intentionally been left to deteriorate through erosion.

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   Aquarium

   أكواريوم

   Here you can see the underwater life of the Red Sea.

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   El Gouna mosque

   مسجد الجونة / Masǧid al-Ǧūna

   The mosque of the town.

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   Culturama

   Multimedia-Panorama-Show.

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to El Gouna (CC BY-SA 4.0).