Photos: Sarkozy enjoys warm weather, ancient Egyptian civilization in family vacation in Luxor

CAIRO – 17 February 2022: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made a visit to Luxor to enjoy the charming Pharaonic civilization in the Upper Egyptian governorate and the warmth of the winter weather in Egypt.

Sarkozy chose Luxor to spend a special vacation with his family. He was welcomed at Luxor International Airport upon arrival with friendliness and his arrival procedures was facilitated.

Sarkozy's visit to Luxor this year is not his first, as he spent a family vacation late in 2007 in the Egyptian city, accompanied by former model and Italian-French singer Carla Bruni, his wife since 2008.

Osama Abdel Ghani, director of a tourism company in Luxor, says that he met Sarkozy while eating breakfast in a hotel, explaining that he enjoys his visit to Luxor, loves the ancient Egyptian civilization and visits it for the second time to enjoy the weather this year.

Sarkozy is not the only one who fell in love with Egyptian antiquities. In 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Abu Simbel temple in Aswan, and in the same year 2017, Prince Henrik, husband of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, also visited Aswan on a 10-day vacation.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi also invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2017 to attend a concert in the Great Pyramids area on the sidelines of her visit to Egypt.

In 1974, Former US President Richard Nixon and his wife visited the Giza Pyramids with late Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat, and in 1992, British Princess Diana visited the pyramids and Luxor.

In 1994, Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife visited the Pyramids area and President Vladimir Putin was keen to visit the Pyramids in 2005. In November 1982, French President Francois Mitterrand visited Luxor and Aswan.

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