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You pick your fish off the ice, they grill it, you eat facing the harbour.
AlexandriaAnfoushi / Corniche
A Roman necropolis on three levels, where Anubis wears a legionary's armour.
AlexandriaKarmouz
Egypt's only surviving Roman theatre: thirteen tiers of marble in the middle of downtown.
AlexandriaKom el-Dikka
A 2002 library that has nothing of the ancient one but its name, and a reading room on eleven terraces.
AlexandriaShatby
A royal park by the sea where you visit the gardens, not the palace.
AlexandriaMontazah
The whole city's evening walk: grilled corn, salted lupins, anglers on the parapet.
AlexandriaEastern Harbour
An early twentieth-century patisserie and brasserie, painted ceilings intact, on Saad Zaghloul Square.
AlexandriaSaad Zaghloul, Raml
The garden of a nineteenth-century Greek villa: ruled walks, marble statues, old palms.
AlexandriaSmouha
A sunken garden wrapped around what is left of Alexandria's medieval city wall.
AlexandriaShallalat
An early twentieth-century pleasure garden in Nouzha: come for the palm walks.
AlexandriaNouzha
A Greek patisserie of the 1920s: you pick from the chilled cabinet, prices on the labels.
AlexandriaSaad Zaghloul
A Mamluk fortress of the 1470s at the harbour point, over the ruins of the Pharos.
AlexandriaAnfoushi
A Greek roaster in Alexandria where you drink your coffee standing, in front of the sacks of beans.
AlexandriaAttarine, Alexandria
A 1929 counter where coffee is drunk standing, in three minutes, as in Naples.
AlexandriaCity centre, Alexandria
A Belle Époque room facing the sea, with a view of the bay and of a century of Alexandria.
AlexandriaCorniche, Alexandria
Tea facing the Mediterranean, on chairs set between pavement and sea wall.
A comfortable café overlooking Stanley bay, to work or to linger.
AlexandriaStanley, Alexandria
Alexandria's breakfast: foul, taameya and eggs, in a room that never empties.
Fish picked off the ice, grilled in the alley, eaten at plastic tables.
AlexandriaAnfoushi, Alexandria
Alexandria's antiques market: furniture, chandeliers and china from houses that closed.
"The women's lane": a one-metre-wide alley, packed from morning to night.
AlexandriaManshiya, Alexandria
The fishing port's auction at dawn, before the city wakes.
Alexandria's big mall, with a hypermarket and international brands.
AlexandriaCairo road, Alexandria
An Art Nouveau tavern serving beer and prawns for a century.
