The importance of Luxor

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A sense of calm and peace is usually notable and renders attachment to time quite impossible.
However if you are looking for amenities that can be located in a modern day city, then Luxor has them all: Fast energetic night flow with clubs, restaurants and hotels.
There are also enough open air markets that give shoppers the opportunity to feel happy too.

Luxor is a huge supporter

of

Egypt

's economy though it is currently not riding on the status of being

Egypt

's economic powerhouse-it once did possess the status.
Its major source of income is Tourism which has roots in the Greek and Roman dynasties when just like today, it pulled the global attention of tourists.
Luxor hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops form the basis for this attraction.

Luxor’s plan :-
There are three major streets: Sharia al-Mahatta, Sharia al-Karnak and the Corniched, next to the Nile stand out as major in Luxor which then qualify the city as relatively small.

Sharia al- Mahatta
Sharia al- Mahatta is right in front of the train station along the Nile and comes to contact with the garden of Luxor Temple.

The Sharia al Karnak
The Sharia al Karnak Street, also known as Sharia al Markaz meets the Sharia al- Lokanda.
There are Colorful restaurants, cafés and bazaars with a range

of

Egypt

ian souvenir line up through the street .

On the east bank is the modern town of Luxor.
Running alongside part of the River bank and separated from it by the corniche is Luxor Temple.

Just south of the Temple is the Old Winter Palace Hotel –
It was built during the British occupation

of

Egypt

and is still being used today as a luxury hotel .
it was used early this century by Lord Carnarvon as work proceeded on West Bank excavations and preliminary work on the tomb of

Tutankhamen

.

Corniche street
West of the Temple compound is the Corniche street, which separates the Temple from the Nile.
It is lined with rows of benches beneath small shade trees .

** To the northwest, built atop the Roman village, two dilapidated 19th century houses, one of them the headquarters

of

Egypt

’s National Democratic Party.

**At atop of the Ancient town are Brooke Animal Hospital, the city jail, the fire department, and a pottery dealer lie behind it.

**Visitors to the Temple today enter from the Corniche on the west.
There was an entrance very near here in Ancient times, too, and below street level on the edge of the Nile one can see the stones of the landing quay built to receive sacred barks and other vessels that arrived and departed the Temple on festival days.

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