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A dry limestone canyon on the edge of Maadi: an old sea floor, now a protected area.
CairoMaadi
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.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
The covered tentmakers' street south of Bab Zuweila: appliqué still sewn by hand.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
The royal mummies have been here since 2021, and the story runs right up to Egypt today.
CairoFustat
The air-conditioned stop in the heart of the souk, when the bazaar becomes too much for the legs.
CairoKhan el-Khalili
A neighbourhood bookshop with a few tables, where you stay longer than planned.
CairoZamalek
The Egyptian café chain you find everywhere, and that always does the job.
CairoSeveral addresses across Cairo
The other long-standing Cairo chain, for late breakfasts and informal meetings.
Egyptian specialty coffee, roasted in-house and served by baristas who explain.
The neighbourhood patisserie where Cairo families buy the Friday cake.
An independent bookshop and publisher, with a café where people work all afternoon.
The bookshop that reopened Cairo's appetite for reading, with a café corner at the back.
The cakes and cupcakes Cairenes bring when they are invited somewhere.
Heliopolis's neo-Moorish arcades, their terraces and their patisseries.
CairoHeliopolis
Levantine mezze in a vaulted cellar, close to the Corniche.
CairoGarden City
An Egyptian craft shop facing the Ibn Tulun mosque, with no haggling and no pressure.
CairoIbn Tulun, Darb el-Ahmar
Crafts from rural cooperatives, at marked prices, with the workshop's name on the label.
Bookshop and crafts on the first floor of a Talaat Harb building, facing the Egyptian Museum.
CairoDowntown
Cairo's last hand bookbinding workshop, behind the al-Azhar mosque.
CairoAl-Azhar, Darb el-Ahmar
Nasr City's big mall: brands, cinemas and an indoor children's park.
CairoNasr City
A contemporary art centre in Old Cairo, with evening concerts and exhibitions.
A 1900s lounge bar with leather armchairs, left exactly as it was.
A Downtown tavern where journalists, artists and regulars have met since 1969.
