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Cairo · New Administrative Capital

The New Capital's business district

Twenty towers in the desert, including Africa's tallest: a skyline out of nowhere.

€ BudgetOff the beaten track

The new capital's financial district lines up its towers on a desert axis, around the Iconic Tower and its three hundred and eighty-five metres. It is not a tourist visit in the classic sense: it is a country-scale building site you look at, with no equivalent elsewhere in Africa.

The extra bit

Combine with the mosque and the cathedral, ten minutes away by car: the only way to make the trip worth it.

Know before you go

Everything is done by car: distances between districts run to kilometres, with no continuous pavements and no cruising taxis.

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Central business district, New Administrative Capital

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