Medinat Habu ( Habu City)

Ramses III's magnificent memorial temple of Medinat Habu is perhape one the most underrated sites on the west bank.

The site was one of the first places in Thebes to be closely associated with the local god Amun. Although the complex is most famous for the funerary temple built by Ramses III, Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III also constructed buildings here. It measures 320 m in length (East to west) and about 200 m in width (North to south). You can still see the mudbrick remains of the medieval town that gave the site its name (medina means "town" or "city") on top of the enclosure walls.