International · City
Cairo — Heliopolis, the Baron’s Palace and Belle Époque Downtown
Two European-built quarters frame Cairo's early-twentieth-century ambitions: a desert garden suburb crowned by a Hindu-temple palace, and a…
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Cairo
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Egypt · Monument
Cairo Citadel — Egypt
The medieval fortress that served as the seat of Egyptian power for seven centuries — the Cairo Citadel,…
Building
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Marcel Dourgnon’s 1902 Beaux-Arts palace on Tahrir Square holds more than 120,000 objects from ancient Egypt — and…
Egypt · Tradition
Henna rituals
Henna rituals—the application of natural plant dye to create temporary patterns on skin—unite aesthetic expression, social celebration, and…
Egypt · Tradition
Koshary
Egypt's national street food, koshary layers pasta, fried rice, lentils and chickpeas with garlicky tomato sauce and crispy…
Egypt · Palace
Mena House — Cairo
No hotel on earth has a more insistent backdrop: the Pyramids of Giza rise above the garden at…
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Egypt · Zone
Merimde Beni-Salama
The oldest agricultural village yet discovered in Egypt and one of the oldest in Africa north of the…
Egypt · Zone
Saqqara
The necropolis where Imhotep invented stone architecture and the pyramid — a desert plateau that holds thirty dynasties…
Cairo Governorate · Church
The Church of Abu Serga: built over a crypt where Coptic tradition says the Holy Family once rested
Church of St. Sergius and Bacchus (Abu Serga), Old Cairo, Egypt. Photo: Faris El-Gwely, via Wikimedia Commons, CC…
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