Saint Catherine

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St. Cathrine town is a town of a distinguished type of privacy.It is the highest of the inhabited area in Sinai. It is located at the top of a plateau that rises to 1600m above the sea level, and it is surrounded by a series of the highest mountains not only in Sinai but in Egypt as a whole.  

The highest of them are tops of Catherine,Moses and AL- Safsafa mountains.Such a unique height provided the location with a special type of climate. 
 It is moderate in summer and very cold in winter which gives her a certain beauty when ice covers the mountain tops.The area was announced a natural protectorate.

Historically speaking St.Cathrine is of great importantance and historic dimension. This added to its religious importance when the monastery known by the name of St.Cathrine Monastery was built in the 16th century. It still remains as the greatest of the Christian monument in Egypt and the world.
As it is distinguished in location, climate, history and geography, this reflected on its present as it is now considered a touristic location of special type as well as an agrigolaral area due to its underground water in the wells.
   
St. Catharine town is located at the heart land of south Sinai at a distance of 300 km from Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel. Its area is about 5130km2 and it is renowned of its varied forms of tourism;religious,safari and mountaineering. St. Catharine teems with religious relics: the monastery,Mosas mountain and prophet Haroun shrine. This is besides,several touristic projects,and it is considered the biggest protectorate area in Egypt.

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