2025
ZEINAB KHATOUM HOUSE
Cairo
Mansion to visit
Refurbished el-Azhar mosque featuring a large main hall and a summer terrace overlooking an ...Read more
2025
SABIL KUTTAB ABDEL-RAHMAN KATKHUDA
Cairo
Works of art to see
This Ottoman and Turkish-inspired sabil, with stocking room and kuttab above, is one of the ...Read more
2025
OTTOMAN GATE HARET EL-MOUBAYYADIN
Cairo
Ancient monuments
The Haret el-Moubayyadin Ottoman gate is one of the few remaining Ottoman gates in historic ...Read more
2025
BAB EL-FOUTOUH
Cairo
Works of art to see
Recognizable by its two rounded towers, long arch and carefully maintained military ...Read more
2025
SABIL KUTTAB QAITBAY
Cairo
Works of art to see
A superb red-stone edifice, carefully decorated and adorned with polychrome marble slabs, built ...Read more
2025
MEDINET DIMAI
Médinat El-Fayoum
Ancient monuments
Abandoned city housing a fortified town on the edge of the lake, whose function was to watch ...Read more
2025
SABIL MOHAMMED ALI
Cairo
Works of art to see
Sabil is made up of eight domes set below the street, with a dome decorated in the pure style ...Read more
2025
BEIT HARAOUI
Cairo
Mansion to visit
This restored bourgeois house, with an interior courtyard, boasts beautiful painted wood ...Read more
2025
MANIAL PALAIS
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Imposing Ottoman palace housing jewels, carpets and copies of the Koran evoking the splendor of ...Read more
2025
EMIR TAZ PALACE
Cairo
Monuments to visit
The palace is divided into 2 parts, one to the west with temporary exhibitions and the other to ...Read more
2025
BEIT EL-Suhaymi
Cairo
Mansion to visit
Superb restored house with a wide range of reception rooms, including a second floor reserved ...Read more
2025
JOSEPH'S WELL (BIR YOUSSEF)
Cairo
Works of art to see
80 m deep well with double pumping system powered by animals turning the traditional sakieh.Read more
2025
GAWHARA PALACE
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Palace to the southwest of the esplanade, featuring a few rooms, original furniture and gold ...Read more
2025
HAREM PALACE
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Palais-harem in the northern quarter, home to the Military Museum, which became a military ...Read more
2025
SUPREME COURT
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Egyptian Supreme Court of Justice, with a neoclassical façade that gives the institution a ...Read more
2025
SAKAKINI PALACE
Cairo
Monuments to visit
A strange little palace in the shape of a star, featuring a variety of architectural styles, ...Read more
2025
CAIRO UNIVERSITY
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Cairo University with a two-column facade overlooking a large amphitheatre, accommodating ...Read more
2025
RED PYRAMIDE
Dachour
Monuments to visit
Pyramid 100 m high and 200 m wide, representing the first successful attempt at a smooth-sided ...Read more
2025
EMPAIN BARON'S PALACE
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Hindu-style palace designed by architect Alexandre Marcel between 1907 and 1910 and acquired by ...Read more
2025
PRESIDENCY OF THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Presidential palace housed in a magnificent hotel built by Ernest Jaspar and Alexandre Marcel.Read more
2025
BAB EL-GHOURI
Cairo
Towers to visit
Enter the popular souk to visit the clothing and linen market, the pretty Al Ghuri mosque...Read more
2025
LARGE PIGEON LOFT IN QOTUR
Qotur
Monuments to visit
The Qotur dovecote, with its 30 or so adobe domes, follows a tradition of pigeon breeding ...Read more
2025
HELIOPOLIS OASIS COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Head office of Baron Empain's company, with a staircase topped by a small minaret covered by a ...Read more
2025
MADRASSA ZAHIR BARQUQ
Cairo
Schools colleges and universities to visit
Madrassa in accordance with the layout of mosques of the time, with a khanqah for 60 Sufis.Read more
2025
ARAB LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS
Cairo
Monuments to visit
Headquarters of the Arab League, built by architect Mahmoud Ryiad in a very simple, slender ...Read more