Zagazig
Zagazig is a city in Egypt.
Zagazig is a city in Egypt. Situated in the eastern part of the Nile delta, it is the capital of the governorate of Sharqia. It is located on the Muweis Canal and is a hub of the corn and cotton trade. The city contains the Museum of Tal Basta Antiquities, including archaeological exhibits.
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Worth seeing in and around Zagazig
2 places 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.
- 01Bubastis
Bubastis, also known in Arabic as Tell-Basta or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city. Bubastis is often identified with the biblical Pi-Beseth.
1.2 km · archaeological site in Egypt · Wikipedia - 02Zagazig Stadium
Zagazig Stadium, officially Zagazig University Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Zagazig, Egypt. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home games of El Sharkia SC. It holds 20,000 people.
3.5 km · building in Egypt · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Museum of leader Ahmed Orabi
- 02Tell Basta
The ruins of the ancient sacred city of Bastet, the cat goddess.
- 03Museum of Tell Basta Antiquities
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Where to eat
Mo'men, tolba ewida street. Egyptian fast food restaurant Freskas. best sandwiches in zagazig
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Getting to Zagazig
- Airports
- Cairo (CAI), 52 km · Sphinx (SPX), 77 km · Port Said (PSD), 106 km
- Cairo → Zagazig63 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · E£115–155
- Al Jiza → Zagazig506 km · quickest by road, 11h 48m · $55–75
- Port Said → Zagazig107 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · E£195–265
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Zagazig
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 Zagazig. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf not on a package tour, the best way to get there is by hiring a taxi for the day, or organising a private driver to take you.
From Wikivoyage: Tell Basta, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2022-02.
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Next door to Zagazig
Zagazig is 49 km from Al Khuşūş, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Al Qanāyāthuman settlement in Egypt6.9 km