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Alexandria’s Layered Heritage Walk

Alexandria’s Layered Heritage Walk

Alexandria · Egypt

14 stops12 km2 h 20 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Alexandria’s ancient, religious, and coastal heritage in a sequence that reveals how different eras meet within the city. You will see underground tombs, archaeological remains, gardens, churches, mosques, monuments, a castle, and the ruins associated with the city’s famous lighthouse. Each stop offers a distinct way to read Alexandria’s past, from burial customs and public spaces to living places of worship and seafront defense. Bring time to look closely at the changing materials, forms, and atmosphere along the route.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa

    Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa

    كتاكومب كوم الشقافة is an attraction in Alexandria, Egypt.

  2. Pompey's Pillar

    Pompey's Pillar

    A Roman column for Diocletian, misnamed for Pompey and still standing where ancient Alexandria placed it.

  3. Pompey's Pillar

    Pompey's Pillar

    A Roman column for Diocletian, misnamed for Pompey and still in its ancient place.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Kom El Deka

    Kom El Deka

    A Roman-Byzantine civic centre where villas, baths, lecture halls and theatre survive together.

  6. Shallalat Gardens

    Shallalat Gardens

    A terraced Alexandria park where artificial waterfalls meet the remains of the city wall.

  7. Al-Qaed Ibrahim Mosque

    Al-Qaed Ibrahim Mosque

    مسجد القائد إبراهيم is a mosque in Alexandria, Egypt.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.