{"id":199880,"date":"2025-06-10T07:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-tourism-ministry-inaugurates-new-visitor-centre-of-alexandrias-qaitbay-citadel\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:28:05","slug":"egypt-tourism-ministry-inaugurates-new-visitor-centre-of-alexandrias-qaitbay-citadel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-tourism-ministry-inaugurates-new-visitor-centre-of-alexandrias-qaitbay-citadel\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Tourism Ministry Inaugurates New Visitor Centre of Alexandria&#8217;s Qaitbay Citadel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has inaugurated a newly equipped visitor centre at the Qaitbay Citadel in Alexandria, enhancing visitors&#8217; experience at one of Egypt&#8217;s most iconic historical landmarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The centre, housed within one of the citadel&#8217;s main tower halls, was developed in collaboration with the French Centre for Alexandrian Studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The initiative comes as part of a broader objective to raise the standard of visitor services across museums and archaeological sites&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506100045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has inaugurated a newly equipped visitor centre at the Qaitbay Citadel in Alexandria, enhancing visitors&#8217; experience at one of Egypt&#8217;s most iconic historical landmarks. The centre, housed within one of the citadel&#8217;s main tower halls, was developed in collaboration with the French Centre for Alexandrian Studies. The initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,51581,9881,51583,4697,415,7630,6857,257,51582,254,1634,29848],"class_list":["post-199880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alexandrias","tag-centre","tag-citadel","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-inaugurates","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-qaitbay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism","tag-visitor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}