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SALEH TALAI MOSQUE
Religious buildings
The last Persian-inspired Fatimid mosque with a bronze door on display in ...Read more
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SULTAN AL-MUAYYAD MOSQUE
Religious buildings
A mosque with a splendid mihrab, a courtyard transformed into a garden and ...Read more
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EL-FAKAHANI MOSQUE
Religious buildings
A pretty mosque with two beautifully carved original doors and 12 marble ...Read more
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BAB EL-FOUTOUH
Works of art to see
Recognizable by its two rounded towers, long arch and carefully maintained ...Read more
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SABIL KUTTAB QAITBAY
Works of art to see
A superb red-stone edifice, carefully decorated and adorned with polychrome ...Read more
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SABIL MOHAMMED ALI
Works of art to see
Sabil is made up of eight domes set below the street, with a dome decorated ...Read more
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SULTAN HASAN MOSQUE
Religious buildings
Two remarkable mosques on Salah el-Din Square, including the Sultan Hassan ...Read more
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BEIT HARAOUI
Mansion to visit
This restored bourgeois house, with an interior courtyard, boasts beautiful ...Read more
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MANIAL PARK
Parks and gardens
The park stretches along the Nile, on Roda island, behind the palace. ...Read more
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MANIAL PALAIS
Monuments to visit
Imposing Ottoman palace housing jewels, carpets and copies of the Koran ...Read more
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EMIR TAZ PALACE
Monuments to visit
The palace is divided into 2 parts, one to the west with temporary ...Read more
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ORMAN GARDEN
Parks and gardens
Cairo's oldest botanical garden, divided into three zones, preserving ...Read more
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BEIT EL-Suhaymi
Mansion to visit
Superb restored house with a wide range of reception rooms, including a ...Read more
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MOSQUE AND MADRASSA INAL-EL-YOUSSOUFI
Religious buildings
Two monuments with two iwans in the inner courtyard and divine invocations ...Read more
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JOSEPH'S WELL (BIR YOUSSEF)
Works of art to see
80 m deep well with double pumping system powered by animals turning the ...Read more
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GAWHARA PALACE
Monuments to visit
Palace to the southwest of the esplanade, featuring a few rooms, original ...Read more
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HAREM PALACE
Monuments to visit
Palais-harem in the northern quarter, home to the Military Museum, which ...Read more
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CARRIAGE MUSEUM
Museums
The oldest museum of its kind in the world, featuring a unique collection ...Read more
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SUPREME COURT
Monuments to visit
Egyptian Supreme Court of Justice, with a neoclassical façade that gives ...Read more
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SAKAKINI PALACE
Monuments to visit
A strange little palace in the shape of a star, featuring a variety of ...Read more
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POSTAL MUSEUM
Museums
Small museum on the 2nd floor of the central post office, featuring a ...Read more
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CAIRO UNIVERSITY
Monuments to visit
Cairo University with a two-column facade overlooking a large amphitheatre, ...Read more
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PLACE EL-OPERA
Street square and neighborhood to visit
The square features a magnificent bronze statue of Ibrahim Pacha with ...Read more
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SAAD ZAGHLOUL MAUSOLEUM
Cemetery and memorial to visit
Neo-Pharaonic mausoleum with colonnades and cornices from Pharaonic ...Read more
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STATUE THE AWAKENING OF EGYPT
Monuments to visit
It is called Nahdat Misr or the Awakening of Egypt. The granite statue was ...Read more
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TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Cemetery and memorial to visit
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in basalt, a stone used by the ancient ...Read more
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EFFAT NAGUI & SAAD EL-KHADEM MUSEUM
Museums
A museum dedicated to the paintings of Effat Nagui, which organizes ...Read more
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PANORAMA OF THE OCTOBER WAR
Museums
Museum dedicated to October 6, 1973, featuring aircraft, tanks and weapons ...Read more
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MEDICAL MUSEUM
Museums
The Museum of Medicine is within the university hospital of Qasr el-Aïny. ...Read more
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RAMSÈS PLACE
Street square and neighborhood to visit
It's fun to look at a map of Cairo from the Guide Joanne of 1900, or a good ...Read more
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EMPAIN BARON'S PALACE
Monuments to visit
Hindu-style palace designed by architect Alexandre Marcel between 1907 and ...Read more
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PRESIDENCY OF THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT
Monuments to visit
Presidential palace housed in a magnificent hotel built by Ernest Jaspar ...Read more
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NOTRE DAME BASILICA
Religious buildings
Basilica built to plans by Alexandre Marcel and to the specifications of ...Read more
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MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART
Archaeology
Museum offering a guided tour of the world's largest collection of Islamic ...Read more
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BAB EL-GHOURI
Towers to visit
Enter the popular souk to visit the clothing and linen market, the pretty ...Read more
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TAKYA ABOU SEIF
Mansion to visit
This building, which extends the khanqah of Sultan Ashraf Barsbay, is not ...Read more
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ST. GEORGE'S CONVENT
Abbey monastery and convent
Chapel housed in an 11th-century Fatimid palace, accessed through a ...Read more
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HELIOPOLIS OASIS COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
Monuments to visit
Head office of Baron Empain's company, with a staircase topped by a small ...Read more
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MUSEUM OF AGRICULTURE AND COTTON
Museums
The Museum of Agriculture and Cotton is a good option for lovers of ancient ...Read more
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CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN
Religious buildings
Although it was also built in the th century, this church, which suffered ...Read more
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AYYUBID MINARET
Ancient monuments
Only in the middle of nowhere, stands on the other side of the street a ...Read more
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SABIL EL-MOUSTAHFIZAN
Works of art to see
Ibrahim Agha el-Moustahfizan had this sabil (path) built at the same time ...Read more
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BAB TARABEY EL-CHERIFI
Works of art to see
This door, built in 1503, is located next to a mausoleum with a very ...Read more
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CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
Monuments to visit
This is one of the questionable expressions of néopharaonique ...Read more
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HASSAN KATKHUDA MOSQUE
Religious buildings
A small Mamluk mosque situated to the north of an impressive succession of ...Read more
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AMIR AKHUR MOSQUE
Religious buildings
A small mosque built in 1503 by the great equerry during the reign of ...Read more
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MADRASSA ZAHIR BARQUQ
Schools colleges and universities to visit
Madrassa in accordance with the layout of mosques of the time, with a ...Read more
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EL-HORREYA GARDEN
Parks and gardens
Garden where lovers are found in the shadow of great bronze statues of ...Read more