Why visit Jarājūs
Townapedia lists 2 museums and landmarks in and around town.
Highlights include Naqada.
Weather in Jarājūs
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About Jarājūs
Garagos (Arabic: جراجوس) is a village in Qena Governorate in Egypt, which is famous for "Garagos Pottery".
From the Wikipedia article Garagos, Egypt (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Museums and landmarks2
History
The village became a center for the development projects of the first Egyptian NGO, the Association of Haute-Égypte (Association of Upper Egypt), founded by Catholic missionaries including the Jesuits Stéphane de Montgolfier (1907–2000), Maurice de Fenoyl (1909–2004), and Philippe Ackermann (1914). The association founded a School in 1947. Later under the leadership of Ackermann the village established a pottery studio and installed its workshops in a Nubian-style domed mud-brick building built by the celebrated architect Hassan Fathy. They also founded a weaving studio for young women, which aimed to provide more opportunities for female development, under the supervision of Folla el-Masri (1919–2003), an Egyptian woman from Asyut. In the 1950s and '60s the village's artisanal workshops attracted French and Swiss tourists who visited nearby Luxor and offered a model for linking tourism to rural development.
From the History section of Garagos, Egypt on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Jarājūs
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Getting there and nearby towns
Luxor International Airport (LXR) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 23 km away.
- Naqādah 5 km northwest, about 5 min by car
- Qūş 5 km north, about 5 min by car
- Qifţ 15 km northeast, about 15 min by car
- Az Zaynīyah Qiblī 16 km southwest, about 16 min by car
- Aţ Ţārif 19 km southwest, about 19 min by car
- Luxor 22 km southwest, about 22 min by car
- Al Bayāḑīyah 26 km southwest, about 26 min by car
- Qina 33 km north, about 33 min by car
- Armant 35 km southwest, about 35 min by car
- Dishnā 40 km northwest, about 40 min by car
Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.
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Sources and licences
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, coordinates, regions and time zone
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
- Wikidata (CC0 1.0): elevation, founding date, time zone, website, landmarks and historic places
- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- GaragusStreet2, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusMoulds, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusRawCeramics, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusCeramicsFacrory, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusCeramics, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusHlFamilyChurchIkonostasis, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusHlFamilyChurchMary, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusHlFamilyChurchInside, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusHlFamilyChurchRelics, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusHlFamilyChurchAltar, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
- GaragusStreet1, Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 4.0
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