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Pictures of Cairo - Egypt: Pyramids, Mosques, Palaces, Museums. Pyrmids of Khefren, Keops, Great Sphinx, Saqqarah...
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Bab al Nasr or Gate of Victory-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Bab al Nasr is the only one of the three major gates of ancient Cairo composed of two rectangular towers. Bonaparte's troops used it to protect themselves from the rebellious Cairo population.
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Bab Zuwayla-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The two minarets that spring from the towers belong to the Mosque of al-Mu'ayyad, which is located just inside the gate. They were placed atop the gate some 400 years after it was built, and make it seem far mightier than the Northern Gates.
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Bab Zuwayla-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Bab Zuwayla defines the southern limits of the Fatimid City. It is named after the al-Zawila, a Berber tribe whose Fatimid soldiers were quartered nearby.
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Khufu ship-Giza-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: It is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved vessels from antiquity. It was considered as the world's oldest intact ship and a masterpiece of woodcraft that could sail today if put into water.
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Khufu ship-Giza-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu (King Cheops). It was sealed into a pit at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2,500 BC.
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Beit al Suhaymi-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Bayt al Suhaymi is the best example of a rich private house dating to seventeenth century Egypt. The house also demonstrates a lot about the art of the period and how people used to live in the Ottoman period. It was restored in 1997.
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Beit al Suhaymi-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Most of the spaces within the house were designed around climatic considerations, like the remarkable mashrabeya screens in the house, overlooking the street.
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Al Azhar Street-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The market of Khan el-Khalili, once known as the Turkish bazaar during the Ottoman period was built in 1382 by the Emir Djaharks el-Khalili in the heart of the Fatimid City. The Khan is bordered on the south by al-Azhar Street and on the west by the Muski Market.
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