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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
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
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
Rows of seated Buddhas under parasols, in a Japanese-style garden south of Cairo.
CairoHelwan
The spine of Fatimid Cairo, from Bab al-Futuh to Bab Zuweila, and best walked.
A public fountain of 1744 at the fork of al-Muizz, the Quran school above it.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
Cairo's flea market: whatever the city threw out, sold again on a Friday morning.
CairoSayyida Aisha
Public transport on the river: crossing Cairo by water, for the price of a bus fare.
The fanous market, a few weeks a year: cut tin, coloured glass, and a street that stays up.
The ahwa of students, poets and insomniacs, in an alley behind Talaat Harb.
A vast room with bare walls where tea and beer have been served at the same tables for decades.
CairoBab el-Louk, Downtown
Two pedestrian lanes entirely covered in chairs: Cairo's largest open-air café.
The counter where Zamalek has taken its cappuccino standing up since 1898.
