In the midst of a fascinating landscape of granite rocks, the scared island, domain of the goddess Isis, raise its columns and pillars towards the cloudless sky, giving one the impression of being in a purely imaginary place.

The temple of Philae is one of the three best-preserved Ptolemaic temples; Philae was the largest of the three at the south end of the group of rocks that comprise the first cataract, and is 400 meters long and 135 m wide the name itself reveals its unique geographic position: Pilak in fact as it was called in the enchant texts meant " the corner island".