A traditional Egyptian city to visit is So much, which is in the Lower egypt, capital of the Governorate of Gharbia, which is located in the center of the Nile Delta, 83 km north of El Cairo.
It is a bustling industrial city with strong rural ties, and which is known for the end of the cotton harvest in Egypt's largest festival in October, Moulid for the birth of Saiyid Ahmed el-Badawi.
With its almost three million visitors, Tanta has streets and squares that are full of shops and stalls; where hundreds camp amid heaps of blankets and kitchen utensils, although the dream seems impossible for visitors as the singing, the music and the vendors and the devotees, it seems as if one were in the middle of a Roman circus.
It should be noted that Tanta honors the founder of one of the largest Sufi brotherhoods in Egypt. Born in Fez in Morocco in 1199, Saiyid Ahmed el-Badawi he was sent to Tanta in 1234 by the Iraqi Rifaiyah order, and later founded his own tariqa ("brotherhood"), the Ahmediya. He is a highly revered Sufi character from the thirteenth century who is buried in the main mosque of the city.
Tanta is known for its roasted chickpeas (hummus in Arabic) which can be bought at any of the multitude of sweet shops around the mosques.
It should be added that the city has ginning factories and textile industries, and is also a university city, with an institute attached to the University of El-Azhar in Cairo and a medical school associated with the University of Alexandria, as well as the headquarters of a metropolitan of the Coptic Church.
Among its attractions, the Tanta Museum stands out, which contains collections from our days to the Paranoid era and is the largest museum in the region and the Delta City Mall, which is the largest shopping center and the tallest structure in the Delta.