Palaces
Baron Empain Palace
The
Baron Palace is located in the Heliopolis district on Al Orouba Street on the
main road to Cairo Airport. Baron Emban who built it in 1852, so it named after
his name as The Baron Palace. It is designed by a French architect with a
penchant for reinforced concrete; the palace's oriental style belies any number
of intriguing features besides the material of its construction.
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Al- Zaafaran Palace
The
Zaafarana palace is located at al-Abbassiya district at Khalifa Ma'amon Road.
Now it is inside the main campus of the Ain Shams University. The Zaafaran
Palace was built during Khedive Ismail's era in 1870. The Palace was so named
because the area surrounding it was famous for saffron (in Arabic Zaafaran)
plantations. It was one of the royal palaces and it is said that King Farouk
was born in this palace.
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Al-Sakakini Pasha Palace
The
Palace is situated at Al-Sakakini Square Downtown Cairo in EL-Daher District.
It is one of Egypt's oldest palaces that was built by Habib Sakakini Pasha in
1897. The area where the palace is
located named after Al-Sakakini Pasha. Sakakini’s palace is in the Rococo style
of the late eighteenth century. Some scholars prefer to call the architecture
of this period Late or High Baroque.
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Abdeen Palace
Abdeen
Palace is located in Al Gomhuria Square in Abdeen district in central Cairo. It
was built in 1863 on a 25-feddan area by Egyptian, Italian, French and Turkish
architects. In 1872 the lush and luxurious palace became the seat of the
government, Khedive Ismail ordered the palace be erected in 1863, and the
palace was named after Abdeen Bay, one of the army commanders under Mohamed Ali
Pasha. Abdeen Palace is one of the most
famous palaces that were erected during the reign of Mohamed Ali Pasha Dynasty.
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Manasterly Palace
EL-Manasterly
Palace is located in El-Rawdah Island in El-Manial District in Cairo and next
to the palace are located the Nilometer and Om kalthom Museum, It was built by
Hassan Fouad Al-Manasterly Pasha, whose name is a derivative of the city of
Monastir in Macedonia near the Bulgarian borders. the palace was put
on Egypt's antiquities list and it was opened by the Cultural
Development Fund as the International Musical Centre for the performance of
concerts and lectures.
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