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Pearl necklaces, gold brooches and chased silver boxes heaped on a black background.

Alexandria · Zizinia, Alexandria

The Royal Jewellery Museum

The jewels of Mohamed Ali's family, in a palace with extraordinary stained glass.

€ Budget

Tiaras, jewelled snuffboxes, watches and a collection that tells a century of Egyptian court life. The palace itself is worth the trip: its figurative stained glass, in bathrooms as in salons, has no equal in the country.

The extra bit

Do not miss the bathrooms: the stained glass there tells whole scenes.

Know before you go

Photography is often banned inside, and rooms close in rotation during restoration.

Directions

Ahmed Yehia Pasha street, Zizinia, Alexandria

Directions

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