STATUE THE AWAKENING OF EGYPT
Read moreIt is called Nahdat Misr or the Awakening of Egypt. The granite statue was carried out from 1920 to 1928 by the sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar. A large sphinx representing Eternal Egypt is lying next to a right woman, testifying, symbolizing the awakening of the country. It was not until 1955 that the statue was moved from Bab el-Hadid to this square between Cairo University and the eponymous bridge. It is one of the symbols of modern Egypt.
RED PYRAMIDE
Pyramid 100 m high and 200 m wide, representing the first successful ...Read more
TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in basalt, a stone used by the ancient ...Read more
EFFAT NAGUI & SAAD EL-KHADEM MUSEUM
A museum dedicated to the paintings of Effat Nagui, which organizes ...Read more
PANORAMA OF THE OCTOBER WAR
Museum dedicated to October 6, 1973, featuring aircraft, tanks and weapons ...Read more
MEDICAL MUSEUM
Read moreThe Museum of Medicine is within the university hospital of Qasr el-Aïny. It was created following the long medical tradition that Clot Bey introduced in 1827 under the reign of Mohammed Ali Pasha. There are memories and personal objects that belonged to the French doctor.
RAMSÈS PLACE
Read moreIt's fun to look at a map of Cairo from the Guide Joanne of 1900, or a good old Baedeker of 1908, to find the correspondence between the Cairo of today and the city of a century ago. At that time, Ramses Square and Ramses Avenue, which runs from behind the Egyptian Museum to the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, did not exist. Instead, there is a canal, the Ismaïleya Canal, which the Khedive had dug between 1864 and 1866 to provide fresh water for the digging of the Suez Canal. On the south side of the canal is a small square called Bab el-Hadid. The canal was finally filled in in 1921, while the adjacent districts of Fagalla and Abbasseyah had already been built.
The firstrailway station was inaugurated in 1856, just as the first rail link between Cairo and Alexandria was being completed, and a bridge linked the two banks of the canal. The present central station was built between 1891 and 1893, in neo-Arabic style and decorated with blue ceramics; it is close to the Railway Museum. In 1958, it served as the location for Youssef Chahine's film Central Station. The station was renovated again in 2011.
The terminus of the tramway to Heliopolis is on the same side of the avenue; the line was created in 1909 to link Cairo to the new city built by Baron Empain.
The el-Fath mosque was completed in 1990. It is close to late 19th-century arcaded buildings flanking Rue Clot Bey, named after the famous physician to the Pasha of Egypt, and opened in 1872 to link the station to Avenue Mohammed Ali.
Ramses Square and Avenue lost the meaning of their name in July 2006, after the removal of the monumental statue of the Pharaoh, seriously threatened by pollution from the street and the 6-Octobre auto-bridge built in 1970, through which hundreds of thousands of cars pass every day. The statue of Ramses II was placed there in 1954; it is now in Giza, in the great Museum of Egyptian Art, part of which is due to open soon.
To theeast of Ramses Square, in the Fagalla district, are numerous churches and the headquarters of the Armenian and Greek Catholic patriarchates, as well as renowned French-speaking schools such as the Sainte-Famille run by the Jesuits and the Collège du Daher run by the Frères des Écoles chrétiennes.
Along Ramses Avenue and el-Galaa Street, which runs parallel to it towards the Nile, Egypt's major newspapers have taken up residence: El-Goumhorreya, El-Ahram, El-Akhbar.
EMPAIN BARON'S PALACE
Hindu-style palace designed by architect Alexandre Marcel between 1907 and ...Read more
PRESIDENCY OF THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT
Presidential palace housed in a magnificent hotel built by Ernest Jaspar ...Read more
NOTRE DAME BASILICA
Basilica built to plans by Alexandre Marcel and to the specifications of ...Read more
DREAM PARK
Read moreMultiple amusement park, the most fashionable in Cairo. It is not advisable to go there at the weekend, as it is very crowded. The amusement park officially opens at 10 am, but the attractions only start running at 3 or 4 pm. There is not really logic, it will be necessary to be armed with patience! Children's attractions are often paid for even when buying a all-inclusive ticket. Many adult and children's games are closed due to breakdowns. The wait to play the games is not very long.
GIANACLIS VINEYARD
The Gianaclis vineyard invites you to stroll around the vines, discover the ...Read more
MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART
Museum offering a guided tour of the world's largest collection of Islamic ...Read more
BAB EL-GHOURI
Enter the popular souk to visit the clothing and linen market, the pretty ...Read more
MAJOR EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
The world's largest museum devoted to ancient Egyptian civilizations, with ...Read more
VILLAGE OF TUNIS
A hilltop village overlooking the lake, where Evelyne Porret's students ...Read more
VISITE GUIDÉE AVEC MAGGY
English-speaking Egyptologist guide suggesting a guided tour of Cairo, the ...Read more
VISITE GUIDEE AVEC ALI
French-speaking Egyptologist offers a guided tour of Cairo's ancient and ...Read more
BAB EL-LOUK SOUK
Bab el-Louk Souk in Cairo's Bab el-Louk district, with covered market halls ...Read more
QASR EL-NIL BRIDGE
Cairo's first modern bridge, featuring four bronze lions designed by ...Read more
ARAB LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS
Headquarters of the Arab League, built by architect Mahmoud Ryiad in a very ...Read more
OMAR MAKRAM MOSQUE
A neo-Arabic-style mosque named after the hero of the 1807 Alexandria ...Read more
SHAAR-HASHAMEIM SYNAGOGUE
This synagogue, built from 1905 to 1907 by architect Edouard Matasek, has ...Read more
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Société de Géographie d'Égypte, located in the Egyptian Senate complex, ...Read more
MAUSOLEUM OF IMAM EL-CHAFÉI
Square-based mausoleum topped by a splendid dome, housing a tomb protected ...Read more
HOSH EL-PACHA
This funerary complex, with its richly sculpted tombs, is one of the most ...Read more