Atsa is an administrative center in
El Fayum
Governorate that comprises of some towns and villages . Its main economic resources are driven from agriculture and sugar industries . Atsa is renowned for reclamation , raising poultry and also as a source of limestone and other necessary building materials like sand . Additionally the center encloses a wide range of agricultural lands and is rich in producing wheat , cotton and rice and other important crops . Kasr El Basel is one of the major cities of Atsa Center that encloses El Fayum Sugar factory that provides jobs for a huge number of youth .
Of special interest in Atsa is the El Malak Ghabrial Monastery or Deir Abu Khashaba that lies about 16 km away from El Fayum City on El Nakloun Mountaim . This is one of the important Coptic Monuments in
Egypt
that date back to the 4th century and has a great religious value for Egyptian christians .
