Kite Bay (Fortress with a difficult Fate)
The history of the fortress
Kite Bay, which is located on the Mediterranean coast, has its origins in the
fifteenth century. That's when the Mamluk Sultan Saif Qaitbay ordered to build
fortifications to protect the city of Alexandria from Ottoman aggression.
An interesting fact is that
the citadel was founded on the site of the famous Lighthouse of Alexandria,
which is one of the seven wonders of the world and was destroyed at one time by
a strong earthquake. At the same time, according to experts, the fragments of
the ancient ruins of the lighthouse were used for the construction of the
fortress.
The fate of the fortifications of Qaitbay was not easy, because it is protecting an important port of the
Mediterranean, has been repeatedly subjected to attacks and destruction. But,
despite this, the citadel was able to survive to the present day, though, of
course, its walls are not just rebuilt and restored. If you would like to visit
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For more than five hundred
years fortress arrived in the possession of the Ottoman Empire, the soldiers
who managed to capture the Qaitbay. Could not resist the famous Egyptian
outpost before the French army, which under the leadership of Napoleon
effortlessly mastered them.
I want to emphasize that the
Sultan Muhammad Ali in the first quarter of the nineteenth century was quite an
effort to regain its former power of the fortress. Just during his reign
Qaitbay was equipped with modern on shore while the weapon, it again becomes a
formidable defense of the port city.
But in a restored castle is
not able stood a century, she has been severely damaged by British troops
during the Revolution Arabi, held in the early eighties of the nineteenth
century. For several decades, Kite Bay is in a dilapidated state until King
Farouk did not restore it, and then began to use the fortifications as the
estate for personal recreation.
After the Revolution, held in Egypt in 1952, Kite-Bey was placed under the patronage of the Maritime Museum
of the country. At the end of the last century, at the initiative of the
Egyptian authorities in the fortress were made grandiose reconstruction work
involving well-known architects and historians. Builders are recreated almost
original form of this vibrant attractions of Egypt.
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