Egypt
- Out With The Old
Egypt Today (Nadine El Sayed) This is Egypt Today's cover story. Very sad. Heliopolis has long been known for its garden charm and well-coordinated architecture. Now, just five years after the suburb’s centennial, investor interest and real estate...
- India To Help Egypt Conserve The Baron's Palace
The Hindu NEW DELHI: After Katsaraj and Ta Prohm Temple Complexes in Pakistan and Cambodia, India will now help Egypt in conserving and maintaining one of its key tourist spot — Baron Palace — in Cairo, which looks like a typical Hindu temple. The...
- Restoration Of The Baron Palace, Heliopolis
Egyptian Gazette NB. The story will expire on the above site shortly (it is currently located on the "Tourism" page). In 2005, to mark the centenary of Heliopolis, Suzanne Mubarak ordered the restoration of the derelict Baron Eduard Empain Palace, formerly...
- Downtown Palace To Become History Museum
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ The article on this URL will expire shortly I have reproduced this article by Hassan Saadallah in full: "The Said Pasha Abdul Halim Palace in Champollion Street, central Cairo, is to be converted into an Egyptian...
- Travel: Visiting Cairo
http://tinyurl.com/f7utl (mirror.co.uk)A travel item describing in brief what Cairo is like, what to see in the city, where to eat, what sort of night life is available, where to shop, and (if you are based in the UK) how to get there. There are no surprises...
Egypt
Baron Empain's legendary palace is to be converted
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref)
Baron Empain's legendary palace is to be converted into an international cultural centre and museum after restoration, Nevine El-Aref reports
When Edouard Empain arrived to Egypt in 1904 to construct a railway line linking the lower Egyptian city of Mansoura to Matariya on the far side of Lake Manzala, he became entranced by the country and its distinguished civilisations. Although his company, S A des Chemins de Fer de la Basse-Egypte, failed to generate the intended project, Empain remained in Egypt and married an Egyptian, Yvette Boghdadi. Two years later he established the Cairo Electric Railways and the Heliopolis Oases Company which laid out the plans for the new town of Heliopolis 10 kilometres to the northwest of central Cairo.
When it was finished, Heliopolis was a luxurious and leisured suburb with elegant villas with wide terraces, apartment buildings, tenement blocks with balconies, hotels and facilities as well as recreational amenities including a golf course, racetrack and large park.
- Out With The Old
Egypt Today (Nadine El Sayed) This is Egypt Today's cover story. Very sad. Heliopolis has long been known for its garden charm and well-coordinated architecture. Now, just five years after the suburb’s centennial, investor interest and real estate...
- India To Help Egypt Conserve The Baron's Palace
The Hindu NEW DELHI: After Katsaraj and Ta Prohm Temple Complexes in Pakistan and Cambodia, India will now help Egypt in conserving and maintaining one of its key tourist spot — Baron Palace — in Cairo, which looks like a typical Hindu temple. The...
- Restoration Of The Baron Palace, Heliopolis
Egyptian Gazette NB. The story will expire on the above site shortly (it is currently located on the "Tourism" page). In 2005, to mark the centenary of Heliopolis, Suzanne Mubarak ordered the restoration of the derelict Baron Eduard Empain Palace, formerly...
- Downtown Palace To Become History Museum
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ The article on this URL will expire shortly I have reproduced this article by Hassan Saadallah in full: "The Said Pasha Abdul Halim Palace in Champollion Street, central Cairo, is to be converted into an Egyptian...
- Travel: Visiting Cairo
http://tinyurl.com/f7utl (mirror.co.uk)A travel item describing in brief what Cairo is like, what to see in the city, where to eat, what sort of night life is available, where to shop, and (if you are based in the UK) how to get there. There are no surprises...