Louxor
Louxor (Arab: الأقصر ) is a city located on Right Bank of the the Nile, in High-Egypt, located at approximately 700 km in the south of the Cairo and at approximately 300 km in the north of Assouan. According to recencement of 2006, it is now a city of: 429000 inhabitants - who all live directly or indirectly tourism, which places it at the ninth rank of the Egyptian cities.
It is about the Egyptian antique quoted of Thèbes.
The site of Louxor, with more than four million visitors per annum, is one of the tourist places of Egypt and constitutes the southern part of old Thèbes. Its temple, connected to that of Karnak by a Dromos, long alley bordered of sphinx, was set up with - under the reign of Amenhotep {{III}}. It was modified thereafter by Ramsès {{II}}, which added to it in particular six monumental statues and two obelisks, of which the a, offered to France in 1831, flowering ash since the Place of the Harmony in Paris.
Historic sites
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