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Thirty hectares of green laid over five centuries of rubble, facing the Citadel.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
Rockwork grottoes built under Khedive Ismail, an aquarium opened in 1902, in the shade, in mid-Zamalek.
CairoZamalek
Rows of seated Buddhas under parasols, in a Japanese-style garden south of Cairo.
CairoHelwan
The khedives' locomotives, including Ismail Pasha's gilded saloon carriage.
CairoRamses station
Crossing Cairo by river for the price of a bus ticket.
CairoFrom Old Cairo to Warraq
Kilometres of pedestrian riverbank, lit and planted, open until late.
CairoNile west bank, Cairo
Heliopolis's old racecourse turned neighbourhood park: grass, water, and crowds until midnight.
CairoHeliopolis
The neighbourhood garden cut to children's size: grass, benches, and a play area charged by the hour.
CairoNasr City
Two feddans of terraces at the water's edge: a garden to sit in, not to run in.
Grass, shade and room to spread out in the middle of Zamalek, two minutes from the metro.
Four hands-on floors and a planetarium dome — but the door closes in the early afternoon.
A real ice rink on the Maadi corniche, inside a leisure complex that has aged around it.
CairoMaadi, Nile Corniche
