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Art Varieties In The Italian Architecture of Alexandria.

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A rt Varieties I n T he Italian A rchitecture o f A lexandria . Speaking about heritage is speaking about the human accomplishment, no matter what its ethnic, beliefs or roots are; & as one is trying to point to some of the most important surviving modern heritage in the Egyptian city "Alexandria", it is really an unfair compete with time & neglect. Despite the fact that cosmopolitanism has begun & flourished in Egypt generally & in Alexandria particularly early in the 19 th century due to the vision & the efforts of Mohamed Ali (1805-1848) as well as his successors 1 , & despite that the very rich cosmopolitan architecture of Alexandria has always been like an opened book to our daily sight, many of us didn't notice that inside of this opened book there is also an opened gallery.. which is full of different kinds of arts: (Painting, sculpture, mosaics, stained glass, relief… etc). Many of these arts are r