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Thirty hectares of green laid over five centuries of rubble, facing the Citadel.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
The name says French; the menu says smash burgers and pizza.
CairoMadinet El Waha, Nasr City
The national dish, from a house that has done nothing else for decades.
CairoDowntown
Cairo's oldest café, open without interruption since the late 18th century.
CairoKhan el-Khalili
Everyday koshari — the neighbourhood bowl rather than the guidebook one.
CairoAbdeen
The whole city's evening walk: grilled corn, salted lupins, anglers on the parapet.
AlexandriaEastern Harbour
A sixth-century monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, lived in without a break since Justinian.
SinaiSinai
Cairo's oldest mosque still in its original form, with a minaret whose staircase runs outside.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
A nave built over the towers of a Roman gate: hence the name, and the drop beneath the floor.
CairoOld Cairo, Fustat
The synagogue of the Cairo Geniza, whose fragments are now in Cambridge.
Not an address but a habit: chairs out on the square, a tea, a shisha, at any hour.
CairoAl-Hussein, Gamaliya
Founded in 970 by the Fatimids, a place of teaching for more than a thousand years.
A caravanserai from 1382 turned into a labyrinth of trades. On foot, and without a watch.
CairoGamaliya
An early sixteenth-century Mamluk wikala, now a courtyard of craftspeople and musicians.
CairoAl-Azhar, Gamaliya
An 1891 khedivial garden, closed since 2023 for a complete overhaul. Reopening announced for late 2026.
GizaGiza
The walk Cairenes actually take after dark: Qasr el-Nil bridge on foot, its lions, a glass of tea.
CairoCorniche el-Nil
Rockwork grottoes built under Khedive Ismail, an aquarium opened in 1902, in the shade, in mid-Zamalek.
CairoZamalek
Two eighteen-metre statues at the roadside, all that stands of the west bank's largest temple.
LuxorWest bank
Rows of seated Buddhas under parasols, in a Japanese-style garden south of Cairo.
CairoHelwan
The garden of a nineteenth-century Greek villa: ruled walks, marble statues, old palms.
AlexandriaSmouha
A sunken garden wrapped around what is left of Alexandria's medieval city wall.
AlexandriaShallalat
An early twentieth-century pleasure garden in Nouzha: come for the palm walks.
AlexandriaNouzha
A salt lake below sea level, all that is left of the ancients' Lake Moeris.
FayoumLake Qarun
A small turquoise cove at the foot of a limestone cliff, west of Marsa Matrouh.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaMarsa Matrouh
