EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
Egyptian museum with several rooms displaying works of art, ancient ...Read more
MOSQUE MOHAMMED ALI
A superb mosque in the style of Istanbul's Sainte-Sophie mosque, in keeping ...Read more
SULEIMAN PASHA MOSQUE
Mosque with a prayer hall topped by four domes, one of which is very large ...Read more
EL-GHURI MOSQUE AND PALACE
Mosque with four iwans in its inner courtyard, a superb porch adorned with ...Read more
IBN TOULOUN MOSQUE
A large ancient mosque preserving its original appearance, with arcades ...Read more
CAIRO CITADEL
Citadel divided into three distinct parts, housing Mohammed Ali's former ...Read more
KHAN EL-KHALILI
A large market with an upstairs wakala, bringing together a variety of ...Read more
HANGING CHURCH (OR
The most beautiful church in Cairo, built on the site of a Roman temple 10 ...Read more
SAINT SERGIUS CHURCH
Today, this church below street level is a place of pilgrimage for many ...Read more
BAB ZOUEILA
Door with two minarets to the el-Mouayyed mosque, accessible from the top, ...Read more
COPTIC SAINT MARK'S CATHEDRAL
St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral features stained glass windows by ...Read more
COPTE MUSEUM
A museum in a very pleasant setting, with several rooms and the most ...Read more
MADRASSA AND MARISTAN MANSUR QALAOUN
A superb complex housing a mosque with a square courtyard and four iwans, ...Read more
KHANQA OF SULTAN FARAG IBN BARQUQ
Khanqah has a building with a rare calm conducive to meditation and study ...Read more
ANDERSON GAY HOUSE
Two attached 17th-century houses at the southeast corner of the Ibn Toulon ...Read more
EL-NASIR MOHAMMED IBN QALAOUN MOSQUE
Superb mosque with interior colonnade, covered prayer room and mihrab with ...Read more
MAUSOLEUM OF CHAGARET EL-DOR
Ayyubid-style monument inspired by Abbasid elements and featuring an ...Read more
ESPLANADE OF THE MOHAMMED ALI MOSQUE
Esplanade housing a mosque in front of a sahn and a clock tower presented ...Read more
PLACE TAHRIR
Read moreThis place was redesigned during the time of Nasser, which gave him Tahrir name, which means "liberation." It is much more extensive than the small Ismailieh square which is segregated at the beginning of the rue Talat Harb. At that time, between the Nbts museum and the Qasr el-Nile Bridge, there was precisely the Nineveh el-Nile barracks, where a military garrison protected that part of the city. Today, around this place, the headquarters of the Arab League, the seat of the NDP political party which burned during the revolution of January 2011, the Egyptian museum (behind the Hotel Rameses Hilton, stands at the headquarters of television and radio), the American University in Cairo, the Geographical society (which also burned in 2011!), the mogamma., the mosque Omar Makram, a remnant of the Ismailieh Palace, most of which was destroyed. At the centre of the square is the statue of Sheikh Omar Makram, one of the great figures of Mohammed Ali Pasha, who was realized in 2002 by the sculptor Al Ibrahim in the style of the great sculptors such as Jacquemard and Cordier who delivered monumental statues in Cairo. It was in this place that the greatest demonstrations of the revolution of 2011 took place, using the symbol of liberation, but this time meant to tell President Mubarak that he had to leave; what he did. Since then, Egyptians have been in the habit of demonstrating there to demonstrate their opposition in a very regular way…
AL-AZHAR PARK
A park between el-Azhar, the City of the Dead and the Cairo Citadel, ...Read more