Vintage Alexandria Travel Poster

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Create a richly layered vintage travel poster collage for Alexandria, Egypt, on an aged parchment paper background with subtle stains, fold marks, map grid lines, postal marks, handwritten annotations, and sepia texture. Use a vertical poster composition with a grand 1930s expedition-poster feel, combining photorealistic collage, engraved illustration, and retro print design. At the very top place small coordinate text “31°12’N 29°54’E” on the left, “ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT” centered, and “EST. 331 BC” on the right. The main title should dominate the upper third: huge dark navy slab-serif text “ALEXANDRIA” with large red Arabic text “الإسكندرية” beside it. Under the title add the tagline “WHERE THE MEDITERRANEAN TELLS ITS TIMELESS STORY.” Build the central scene as a dense historical city montage: the Lighthouse of Alexandria/Pharos tower rising at left near the sea, Qaitbay Citadel in warm stone at center, the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s tilted disc roof hovering behind it, an Egyptian flag on a pole, a large muted golden sun circle, the Mediterranean coastline and harbor water, and a faint antique map labeled “MEDITERRANEAN SEA” with “ALEXANDRIA” marked. Add exactly 2 flying birds near the title area. Include exactly 3 circular stamp or seal elements: one upper-left Alexandria Egypt lighthouse stamp, one bottom-center Alexandria postal stamp with waves, and one small decorative seal near the café storefront. Add exactly 2 quote/annotation boxes on the left: a boxed Napoleon Bonaparte quote reading “I have not seen any place that can compare with it.” and handwritten notes reading “Qaitbay Citadel” and “Lighthouse of Alexandria.” The lower half should show a bustling old Alexandria street: a green vintage tram numbered 215 on tracks in the center foreground, a black-and-yellow classic taxi on the right, a cream-and-red bus behind it, palm trees, pedestrians, old European façades and balconies, and signage for Rue Fouad and Café Farouk on the left plus Florence signage on the right. In the foreground include a market and food spread with exactly 6 prominent food/display groups: a large platter of grilled fish and shrimp with lemon, a bowl of bread rolls, a basket of tomatoes and vegetables, a woven crate of oranges, a burlap sack with Arabic writing, and a patterned wooden produce crate with Arabic writing. Add a small bottom-left “MUST SEE” list with exactly 5 items: Qaitbay Citadel, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Montazah Palace & Gardens, The Corniche. Along the bottom center write “A CITY OF MANY LAYERS, A STORY THAT NEVER ENDS.” and beneath it “DISCOVER HER PAST. LIVE HER PRESENT. LOVE HER FOREVER.” Finish with coordinates repeated at bottom right. Color palette: faded cream parchment, navy ink, rusty red Arabic lettering, warm sandstone, teal sea, muted greens, taxi yellow, sun ochre. Keep typography sharp and legible, make the collage extremely detailed but coherent, no modern watermarks, no extra logos, no unrelated text.