Damietta
Damietta is a port city which serves as the capital city of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt.
Damietta is a port city which serves as the capital city of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt. It is located at the Damietta branch, an eastern distributary of the Nile Delta, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the Mediterranean Sea, and about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Cairo. The city was a Catholic bishopric and is a multiple titular see. Damietta is also a member of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, having joined in 2019.
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Worth seeing in and around Damietta
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Amr Ibn al-Aas Mosque (Damietta)
The Amr ibn al-As Mosque, also known as the Abu'l-Ma'ati Mosque, and as the Al-Fateh Mosque, is a mosque in Damietta, Egypt. According to some local sources, it is the second mosque built in Egypt, named for Amr ibn al-As, one of the Companions of the Prophet who led the Arab conquest of Egypt.
800 m · mosque in Egypt · Wikipedia
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Getting to Damietta
- Airports
- Port Said (PSD), 43 km · Cairo (CAI), 151 km · Sphinx (SPX), 170 km
- Stations
- Sack of Damietta, 9.4 km · Damietta Port, 7.5 km
- Port Said → Damietta49 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · E£70–95
- Cairo → Damietta160 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · E£260–345
- Al Jiza → Damietta443 km · quickest by road, 11h 46m · $60–80
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No local-transport research exists yet for Damietta
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Damietta. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Damietta
Damietta is 49 km from Port Said, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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