EL-FAKAHANI MOSQUE
A pretty mosque with two beautifully carved original doors and 12 marble ...Read more
BAB EL-FOUTOUH
Recognizable by its two rounded towers, long arch and carefully maintained ...Read more
SABIL KUTTAB QAITBAY
A superb red-stone edifice, carefully decorated and adorned with polychrome ...Read more
SABIL MOHAMMED ALI
Sabil is made up of eight domes set below the street, with a dome decorated ...Read more
SULTAN HASAN MOSQUE
Two remarkable mosques on Salah el-Din Square, including the Sultan Hassan ...Read more
BEIT HARAOUI
This restored bourgeois house, with an interior courtyard, boasts beautiful ...Read more
MANIAL PARK
Read moreThe park stretches along the Nile, on Roda island, behind the palace. Romantic garden, far from the streets.
MANIAL PALAIS
Imposing Ottoman palace housing jewels, carpets and copies of the Koran ...Read more
EMIR TAZ PALACE
The palace is divided into 2 parts, one to the west with temporary ...Read more
ORMAN GARDEN
Cairo's oldest botanical garden, divided into three zones, preserving ...Read more
BEIT EL-Suhaymi
Superb restored house with a wide range of reception rooms, including a ...Read more
MOSQUE AND MADRASSA INAL-EL-YOUSSOUFI
Two monuments with two iwans in the inner courtyard and divine invocations ...Read more
JOSEPH'S WELL (BIR YOUSSEF)
80 m deep well with double pumping system powered by animals turning the ...Read more
GAWHARA PALACE
Palace to the southwest of the esplanade, featuring a few rooms, original ...Read more
HAREM PALACE
Palais-harem in the northern quarter, home to the Military Museum, which ...Read more
CARRIAGE MUSEUM
The oldest museum of its kind in the world, featuring a unique collection ...Read more
SUPREME COURT
Egyptian Supreme Court of Justice, with a neoclassical façade that gives ...Read more
SAKAKINI PALACE
A strange little palace in the shape of a star, featuring a variety of ...Read more
POSTAL MUSEUM
Small museum on the 2nd floor of the central post office, featuring a ...Read more
CAIRO UNIVERSITY
Cairo University with a two-column facade overlooking a large amphitheatre, ...Read more
PLACE EL-OPERA
The square features a magnificent bronze statue of Ibrahim Pacha with ...Read more
SAAD ZAGHLOUL MAUSOLEUM
Neo-Pharaonic mausoleum with colonnades and cornices from Pharaonic ...Read more
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.
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
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
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