The Bey Citadel

The Bey Citadel of the most important monuments in the city of Alexandria, the bride of the Mediterranean, located in the vicinity of the most important shrines of Alexandria and the city center, it is located a short distance from the library of Alexandria, on the one hand and the Mosque of Mursi Abu Abbas and famous mosques adjacent to him on the other hand, is located in the the end of the tongue on the ground extends west of the eastern port of Alexandria on the island, where he stayed above Ptolemy II Manar or the old lighthouse, which was built in commemoration of his parents before the year 279 BC, and was regarded as one of the seven wonders of the ancient. 
Established a fortress of Sultan Malik al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Abu-Nasr Bey virtual year 882 AH (1477 AD), one of the Circassian Mamelukes.
As stated in the description Bey Citadel book «Description of Egypt» prepared by the scientists of the French campaign that accompanied Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 which stated:
Described Bey Citadel as «Fort Fanar» and said: «It is a fortified fencing immunized newly includes a tower square shape deflagration it on fire at night we have seen in the closets too high from this fort piles of swords and weapons that are worn off completely, due to rust, which made us forms The signs carried by the recognize as belonging to the Crusaders and unquestionably return to campaign for Louis IX miserable ».
Sultans of Egypt took care of the castle .. and added to the Sultan Qansouh Ghouri some of the outer walls of the north side and by some of the latest openings, known as Almkahal to launch gunpowder to the enemy when trying to invasion from the sea, also increased the strength of the garrison and provided them with weapons and gear.
Description Castle
President of the castle door leads to a large patio and the yard begins at the left and right front cabins administrative, management and end to the building of the tower filled the President and on his left heading towards the sea.
The height of the tower and President of the castle, which is located in the northeastern part of them 17 meters long and 30 meters wide and consists of three floors of the tower.
Interface tower with columns of granite to strengthen and ease the load on the lower parts of the castle to keep them .. At the entrance to the tower President vestibule, a terrace was used to living soldiers, and on the right and left Aldrickah caring or included small used to store weapons of soldiers .. and if you look at the top, we find slots include censure over the main gate and «Sistrum» and lintel and rattlers were open as a way to defend In the case of the storming of the castle enemy soldiers holed up on the second floor and dreamed of slots lintel and rattle boiling oil on the heads of enemies ..
Featuring the first floor (ground) mosque-style mosques late era Ayyubid state planning cross-orthogonal and fulcrum of the mosque courtyard which is roofed and called the vestibule and the mosque four iwans such as mosques, Mamluk and the floor of the mosque of marble small a marble original dating to the era of building the castle year 1480 any century 15.
Ramsey shrine
There Iwan direction mosque dedicated to Imam stand, and there is a niche preceded Aamodan of marble, and the funny thing he did not take into account the direction in which the direction of the prayer did not even demanded amended .. In the mosque attached to the living room or the Imam al-Khatib. The irony is that in this room a shrine said to be the tomb of a symbolic as it did not find the remains of the dead and was told that he was prepared to unknown soldier accused in the theft of weapons have been executed and then discovered that he was innocent They built him this symbolic shrine and other tidbits.
In the ground floor rooms, many corridors and said they were used to store weapons and as a way Tmuehi to defend the castle.
Connects the ground floor on the second floor ladder notes the size of the scores big and huge, and it was on the second floor is used as a museum as there are doing some parts of the ships used in the position of Abu Qir Navy between the French and the British public in 1798 and some of the clothes of soldiers and weapons dating back to the era of the Mamluk were transferred these portables to the Maritime Museum in the Stanley area in Alexandria.
The third floor consists of a set of rooms in each «Mzagl» a slot wall expands from the inside, as can the soldier to stand inside of aiming for the enemy coming from the sea, while it is difficult for the enemy shooting him because the small size of the outside as well as the height of the hand Soldier louder than the next enemy In addition, another feature the possibility of the disappearance of the soldier after the correction.
At the end of this role corridors seat of the Sultan huge holes and no seat is equipped with an observation tower for the establishment of the Sultan for a day or for two days has been used by King Farouk Castrahh for a period of periods.
In this role, is also a place to grind grain and bakery There is also the citadel water tanks and storage slots for the arrival of water from the canal were present time create a castle and was named Canal Shedia There is also a set of corridors and rooms were used to store weapons and chamber for execution.
There are also places to sit in the courtyard of the castle and loves visitors sit higher filled the castle and climb top of the castle for photo ops and near the castle small boats for a walk .. There is also in the face of the castle club and a museum of marine fish includes fish colorful and rare species of fish, turtles, clams, snails and other displayed in the museum are Badie.