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Cairo's largest Mamluk complex — and a mausoleum whose occupant never arrived.
CairoRumeila
Muhammad Ali's dynasty rests here — and, with it, the last Shah of Iran.
A furnished Ottoman house, lived in as it was, pressed against Ibn Tulun's outer wall.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
Egypt's richest collection of Islamic art, down to the enamelled Mamluk mosque lamps.
CairoBab el-Khalq
The largest collection of Coptic art anywhere, in a museum built against the walls of the Babylon fortress.
CairoOld Cairo, Fustat
Buildings, borrowed styles, a garden of rare trees — on an island in the middle of Cairo.
CairoManial, Roda Island
A concrete Hindu temple on the airport road, long left to rumour.
CairoHeliopolis
The day power left the Citadel and came down into the city.
CairoAbdeen
The southern gate of Fatimid Cairo, topped by two Mamluk minarets you can climb.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
A madrasa, a mausoleum and a hospital from 1284, in the middle of al-Muizz street.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
An Ottoman house of 1648 in a lane off al-Muizz, courtyard and mashrabiya intact.
CairoGamaliya
A madrasa and Sufi khanqah of 1386, third façade of the Bayn al-Qasrayn row.
The royal mummies have been here since 2021, and the story runs right up to Egypt today.
CairoFustat
An Ottoman pavilion at water level on the Nile, now an Arabic music hall.
CairoRhoda island
Twenty Egyptian sovereigns, moved in 2021 into a hall built for them.
