The City of the Dead is a beautiful necropolis in Arabia and has a great collection of visual delights and cemetery pleasures. Lying in the southeastern part of Cairo, this is truly a lovely place to visit on tours to Northern Africa. It is a huge collection of tombs and mausoleum structures and is a unique destination where we can see people living amongst the dead.
Some of the residents are ancestors of ancient lineage and there are many who live here after being forced to move from central Cairo due to some renewal of urban demolitions and urbanization pressures. This is a true example of migration from rural to urban migration in this least economically developed country. The City of the Dead has the poorest people living and it is also called the Garbage City and is the main center of being reused by Zabbaleen vendors.
This necropolis is a destination of an extraordinary combination of always tombs. It also has Sufi colleges and Madrassas. It has many tourists searching for blessings or Baraka. In the following years, the population of Egypt became poorer and their numbers increased. The lowest strata of the so-called middle class then moved to other bordering areas. This region had the peasants from Egypt and the fellahin who then emigrated to the capital. These people then crowded the fringe areas as well as the City of the Dead. The people who were new to this region changed the total structure of Qarafa has resulted in the city as it is today.
In fact, the family graveyard of the Arab commander Amr ibn al-As who founded the first Arab capital Al Fustat in Egypt too exists here. Thus, the place is a hub of cemeteries and tombs and is indeed a fascination for tourists visiting Northern Africa.
