Top Attractions in Cairo & Giza
Explore the headline places in the Cairo & Giza cluster.
The Baron Empain Palace
A Belgian industrialist's Hindu-temple fantasy in Heliopolis — derelict for decades, restored, and open to the public since 2020.
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun
The oldest mosque in Egypt surviving in its original form — a vast brick courtyard with a spiral minaret, and almost nobody in it.
Al-Azhar Mosque
Founded with the city itself in 970, still the leading seat of Sunni scholarship, and a building where six centuries of patronage stand around one courtyard.
Cairo Tower
A 187-metre concrete tower on Gezira Island with the highest public view over Cairo and the Nile.
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali
The alabaster-faced Ottoman mosque crowning the Citadel, and the building that defines the Cairo skyline.
Coptic Cairo
A walled quarter of churches, a synagogue and a Roman fortress where Egypt's Christian and Jewish history sits within a few hundred metres.
The Citadel of Saladin
A hilltop fortress that governed Egypt for seven centuries, crowned by the silver domes of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali.
Khan el-Khalili
A medieval market quarter in Islamic Cairo — lanes of metalwork, lanterns, spice and coffee that have been trading on the same ground since the fourteenth century.
The Dahshur Pyramids
The Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid — the two attempts, one failed and one successful, that made Giza possible.
Saqqara and the Step Pyramid of Djoser
The oldest large stone building in the world, at the centre of a burial ground that stayed in use for more than three thousand years.
The Grand Egyptian Museum
A purpose-built museum beside the Giza plateau, holding the complete Tutankhamun collection and a grand staircase of colossal royal statuary.
The Great Sphinx of Giza
A lion's body with a king's head, carved from a single ridge of natural limestone at the foot of Khafre's causeway.
Pyramids of Giza
Three royal pyramids on a limestone plateau at the edge of Cairo — the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the only one still standing.
The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir
The old museum on Tahrir Square — crowded, under-labelled, over a century old, and still one of the great collections in the world.
