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Alexandria Attraction Tickets
The Graeco-Roman tickets of the Mediterranean coast — the catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa, Pompey's Pillar, the Qaitbay fort on the old lighthouse foundations, and the new Library — with what each one costs.
Graeco-Roman · 332 BC–AD 640
- Headline ticket
- Catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa
- The harbour
- Qaitbay Citadel
- The mind
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
- Day trip
- From Cairo, 3 hrs
- Era
- Graeco-Roman
- Booking
- Skip-the-queue, with a guide
The lay of the land
Attractions and tickets in Alexandria
Alexandria is the other Egypt — the Mediterranean city of the Ptolemies and the Romans, where Greek and Egyptian met. Its great sights, the lighthouse and the ancient library, are gone, but their successors and the city beneath the modern one remain: catacombs that fuse two cultures underground, a Roman pillar and theatre, a fort on the lighthouse foundations, and a vast modern library that reclaims the name. Most of it is a long but rewarding day trip from Cairo. Here's what each ticket buys.
Graeco-Roman · 332 BC–AD 640
The city that faced the sea
When Alexander the Great founded Alexandria in 331 BC, he turned Egypt to face the Mediterranean. Under the Ptolemies and then Rome it became the intellectual capital of the ancient world — home to the great Library and the Pharos lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders.
The Library and the lighthouse are gone, but the fused civilisation they belonged to survives underground and along the shore. At the Kom el-Shoqafa catacombs, carved in the 2nd century AD, Egyptian gods wear Roman dress; Pompey's Pillar and the Kom el-Dikka theatre are Rome in Egypt; and the Qaitbay fort of 1477 stands on the lighthouse's own foundations. Alexandria is the other Egypt — Greek and Roman to the core.
Alexandria on the Nile
Site by site
The top historical sites in Alexandria
What each site is, what is worth your time inside, and the entry ticket booked right there.
Carmous Catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa
A three-level Roman necropolis spiralling underground, where Egyptian gods are carved in Roman dress — the strangest, finest fusion of the two worlds, and the site to plan the day around.
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Carmous Pompey's Pillar
The lone red-granite column that survived the temple of Serapis, with two granite sphinxes beside it on the mound above the catacombs. Misnamed, Roman, and a short walk from Kom el-Shoqafa.
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Eastern Harbour Qaitbay Citadel
The 15th-century sea fort built on the foundations of the lost Pharos lighthouse, on a spit at the harbour mouth. The view back along the corniche is the picture of Alexandria.
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Corniche Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The vast modern library that revives the ancient one, its tilted disc roofing a reading room for millions of books. A working monument, with museums and galleries inside.
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Downtown Graeco-Roman Museum
The city's great collection of its own Ptolemaic and Roman past, recently reopened after a long restoration — the single best place to read Alexandria's two-culture story.
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Downtown Kom el-Dikka Roman Theatre
The only Roman amphitheatre found in Egypt, with marble seating and mosaic villas around it, sunk below the modern streets beside the railway station.
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Downtown Alexandria National Museum
A graceful restored palace telling the city's whole story from pharaonic to modern, including finds raised from the sunken royal quarter in the harbour.
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Zizinia Royal Jewellery Museum
The jewels and palace of the family of Muhammad Ali in a sumptuous belle-époque villa — a glittering, lesser-known stop away from the antiquities.
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East of the city Rosetta (Rashid)
The Ottoman river town where the Rosetta Stone was found, an hour east, full of tall brick merchant houses — a half-day for travellers who want the road less taken.
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Before you book
How Alexandria tickets work
How Alexandria tickets work, before you book.
It's a long day from Cairo
Alexandria is about three hours each way by road from Cairo, so a day trip is an early start and a late return for two or three good sites. An overnight turns it into a proper visit. We'll tell you honestly which sites fit a day and which need the night.
The sites cluster in two areas
Kom el-Shoqafa and Pompey's Pillar sit together inland; the museums, the theatre, the Library and Qaitbay run along the harbour. We group the tickets by area, so the day isn't spent crossing the city.
Separate tickets, a few camera fees
Each site charges its own entry, and a couple add a photography fee. There's no city pass — we put the set together for your day and handle the bookings, so you're not buying at each gate.
A guide reads the fusion
Alexandria's whole interest is the meeting of Greek, Roman and Egyptian, and it's easy to miss without someone to point it out — the Egyptian gods in Roman tunics underground, the reused stone, the lost coastline. We add an Egyptologist who knows the Graeco-Roman city.
The organised way
Or let us run Alexandria for you
Every ticket on this page is one we can book for you. Most travellers go a step further: a private day tour with a licensed Egyptologist and all entrance fees included, the hotel sorted and the airport handled. Cairo · Luxor · Aswan · Hurghada · Marsa Alam · Sharm El Sheikh, on the ground since 1988.
Guided day tours in Alexandria
Private tours led by a licensed Egyptologist, with every entrance fee included. The sites on this page, handled end to end.
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Alexandria tickets, answered
01 What are the top things to see in Alexandria? +
The Catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa are the highlight — a multi-level Roman necropolis blending Egyptian and Roman art underground. Add Pompey's Pillar beside them, the Qaitbay Citadel on the old lighthouse foundations, the Roman theatre at Kom el-Dikka, the reopened Graeco-Roman Museum and the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Each has its own ticket; we book the set and route them by area.
02 Can I visit Alexandria as a day trip from Cairo? +
Yes, and many people do — it's about three hours each way by road, or a faster train. A day trip gives you two or three of the main sites with an early start and a late return. If you want the catacombs, the harbour and the museums without rushing, an overnight in Alexandria is the better call, and we'll say so honestly.
03 Is there a combined ticket for Alexandria's sites? +
No — each site charges its own entry and there's no city-wide pass. The good news is they cluster: the catacombs and Pompey's Pillar are together, and the museums, theatre, Library and Qaitbay run along the harbour. We put the right tickets together for your time and book them as one.
04 Are the Catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa worth visiting? +
Very — they're Alexandria's signature site and unlike anything in the rest of Egypt. A Roman family carved a tomb three levels down and dressed Egyptian gods in Roman clothes, fusing the two cultures in stone. It's cool, strange and quiet, and the clearest single expression of what made Graeco-Roman Alexandria different.
05 Can you book Alexandria tickets with a guide from Cairo? +
Yes — we run Alexandria as a guided day trip or overnight from Cairo, book every site on this page, handle the transport each way by road or train, and add an Egyptologist who knows the Graeco-Roman city. Tell us your dates and whether you want a day or a night, and we send one plan.
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Plan your Alexandria day
Tell us your dates and whether you want a day trip or an overnight, and we book the catacombs, the harbour and the museums, handle the road or rail from Cairo, and send a guide who knows the Greek city. Cairo · Luxor · Aswan · Hurghada · Marsa Alam · Sharm El Sheikh, on the ground since 1988.