English: Shali is the old city and the castle in the heart of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan Desert, Egypt, and is one of the most famous historical landmarks.

The date of the old city to thousands of years BC, which contains the Temple of Amun established by the ancient Egyptians. Then the largest Alasknr it came to the temple as he entered Egypt to worship there and declares himself the Son of Amon, to his knowledge of the importance of God that when both of the Egyptians, and Greeks. He even recommended to be buried there, he never knows whether it has already been done or not. [1]

The castle are old fort of mud-brick, was built between centuries 12-13 in order to answer the Arabs attacked and tribes mobile in the desert, where there was chaos in the Western Sahara after the era of the Romanian empire, was the tribes changed on each other in order to obtain food from wells regions populated, prompting the people of Siwa to build a high castle to protect it from invaders, and it was mostly Arabs who are close to Siwa Oasis. Shali Fortress is one of the most important tourist attractions in it.