Baron Empain Palace
A Hindu-temple mansion in the middle of Heliopolis — the Belgian baron's Angkor-inspired dream, restored and reopened in 2020.
Cairo
Blue Mosque (Mosque of Aqsunqur)
A fourteenth-century Mamluk mosque in Darb al-Ahmar, its qibla wall clad in Ottoman blue-and-turquoise tiles.
Cairo Tower
A 187-metre lattice lotus on Gezira Island, built with money the CIA meant as a bribe — and the city's highest public viewpoint.
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