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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.
Founded in 970 by the Fatimids, a place of teaching for more than a thousand years.
CairoAl-Hussein, Gamaliya
Two eighteen-metre statues at the roadside, all that stands of the west bank's largest temple.
LuxorWest bank
A public fountain of 1744 at the fork of al-Muizz, the Quran school above it.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
A medieval mud-brick town: covered lanes, dated door lintels, a minaret and a grain mill.
The oases and the Western DesertDakhla
The new capital's great mosque, inaugurated in 2019 in the desert east of Cairo.
CairoNew Administrative Capital
The largest cathedral in the Middle East, inaugurated in 2019 facing the mosque.
The 1942 battle told on the ground, among tanks, maps and cemeteries.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaEl Alamein, north coast
The Delta finally told at home, in a museum opened in 2022.
The Delta and the north coastKafr el-Sheikh, Delta
The khedives' state carriages, reopened to the public after twenty years of restoration.
CairoBoulaq
The Citadel's lower gate, restored and reopened after two centuries closed.
CairoCitadel, Darb el-Ahmar
Roman mosaics and sphinxes from the canal road, in a garden pavilion.
The Delta and the north coastIsmailia, Suez Canal
Three green domes at the canal's mouth, the very image of Port Said.
The Delta and the north coastPort Said
A necropolis kilometres long where people have lived among the tombs for centuries.
CairoQarafa, Islamic Cairo
A well from 861 that measured the flood and set the tax for all Egypt.
CairoRhoda island
Three kilometres of Mamluk arches that carried Nile water up to the Citadel.
CairoFustat
The khedives' locomotives, including Ismail Pasha's gilded saloon carriage.
CairoRamses station
A 1938 museum left exactly as it was, between faded dioramas and ancient grain.
GizaDokki
A 1907 palace on the Nile, now an art centre — painted ceilings and original parquet.
CairoZamalek
Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Rodin, in a Cairo villa almost nobody visits.
The sculptor of "Egypt's Awakening", in a pavilion designed for his work.
