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Egypt was ruled from this crag above the city for seven hundred years, and the view still earns the climb.
CairoCitadel
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.
Cairo's oldest mosque still in its original form, with a minaret whose staircase runs outside.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
A furnished Ottoman house, lived in as it was, pressed against Ibn Tulun's outer wall.
Egypt's richest collection of Islamic art, down to the enamelled Mamluk mosque lamps.
CairoBab el-Khalq
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.
The largest collection of Coptic art anywhere, in a museum built against the walls of the Babylon fortress.
Tutankhamun and the royal mummies have gone elsewhere; the rest, vast, has stayed.
CairoTahrir, Downtown
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
Founded in 970 by the Fatimids, a place of teaching for more than a thousand years.
CairoAl-Hussein, Gamaliya
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 public fountain of 1744 at the fork of al-Muizz, the Quran school above it.
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
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 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
