El Gouna
El Gouna (high الجونة Arabic al - Dschūna, DMG al - Ǧūna, lagoon ', Egyptian Arabic: il - guna; often Gouna El Gouna or ) is a place in Egypt. The population was about 15,000 people, including temporary residents of residential property in late 2009.
Location
The resort town is located about 22 kilometers north of Hurghada right on the Red Sea and has an area of 4.8 x 1.8 km. The southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula lies about 80 km in a north- northeasterly direction.
History
The Egyptian entrepreneur Samih Sawiris had this holiday resort built in 1989. The facility is the flagship project of his Orascom Group, which owns the facility is located for the most part. El Gouna is built in a blend of traditional Nubian style and modern architecture; primarily local materials such as clay and stone were used. The city consists of 14 different hotels, and the individual districts are connected by pedestrian bridges. Individuals acquired or acquire residential property here.
Infrastructure
El Gouna has developed and größtententeils paved shopping streets, some 100 restaurants in all directions, a public transportation system with buses and boats, several schools, a campus of the Technical University of Berlin, a church and a mosque. The "old" large marina Abu Tig Marina has 117 berths for boats and yachts up to 40 m length. Near the big new marina opened in 2009 New Marina for yachts up to 60 m length. In addition, there is still the smaller Abydos marina at the other end of town. Water treatment plants supply in El Gouna fresh water. The waste water of the pool is filtered in processing plants and used for watering the gardens of the hotel and the 18- hole golf course.
El Gouna has a private telephone network and ensures the availability of a mobile phone. Furthermore, there is an equipped according to European standards hospital, a dentist, a decompression chamber for divers and a pharmacy in the village. A small airport for private or charter aircraft is also available. The Hurghada International Airport is located twenty kilometers south.
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Sports
In addition to the traditional water sports and scuba diving kite surfing is operated here whether the uniformly strong südlandigen wind. The wind safety results from the position of the coastline: the lying about 35 kilometers west up to 1300 meters high mountain ranges and north of the Gulf of Suez and its side shielding Sinai Peninsula forming a wind tunnel.
In the El Gouna El Gouna FC is located. Since the 2009/10 season he plays in the Egyptian Premier League; Home ground of the association is the El Gouna Stadium. Coach since April 2013, the German Rainer Zobel.