El Gouna

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.

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.

Mangrove island

جزر المانجروف

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

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.

Aquarium

أكواريوم

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

El Gouna mosque

مسجد الجونة / Masǧid al-Ǧūna

The mosque of the town.

Culturama

Multimedia-Panorama-Show.