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A chequerboard brick façade in black and white, pierced by wooden mashrabiya screens.

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The Delta and the north coast · Rosetta (Rashid)

The Ottoman houses of Rosetta

Some twenty houses in red and black brick, unique in Egypt.

€ BudgetOff the beaten track

Rosetta has kept the country's finest set of Ottoman houses: chequered brick façades, mashrabiyas, painted ceilings. Several can be visited, almost always alone, in a town the world knows for a stone that is no longer there.

The extra bit

Start with the Arab Kili house: the best restored, and the keeper opens the others.

Know before you go

Rosetta is an hour from Alexandria: a day trip, by taxi or microbus.

Directions

Old town, Rosetta, Beheira Governorate

Directions

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