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Built over what was essentially a medieval rubbish dump, Al-Azhar Park is the green lungs of the old district. It ...

The second oldest mosque still standing in Cairo, Ibn Tulun Mosque, was built between AD 876 and 879 and modeled ...

Of all the Islamic Cairo district's gates, Bab Zuweila is the most interesting. You can climb to the top of ...

Severe damage sustained from a car-bomb attack in 2014 resulted in this museum shutting its doors to the public for ...

One of the finest examples of Mamluk architecture in the world, Sultan Hassan Mosque is a vision of Arabic artistry ...

In a commanding location at the foot of the Mokattam Hills, Cairo's citadel was built by Saladin in 1176. The ...

Al-Azhar Mosque is the finest building of Cairo's Fatimid era and one of the city's earliest surviving mosques, completed in ...

The absolutely staggering collection of antiquities displayed in Cairo's Egyptian Museum makes it one of the world's great museums. You ...

The Pyramids of Giza are Cairo's number one half-day trip and a must-do attraction on everyone's itinerary. Right on the ...

Wadi al-Subua's main tourist attraction is the bulky Temple of Ramses II, which contains some excellent statuary and a lovely ...