Landmarks & Culture

Landmarks of East District

From Ptolemaic tombs cut into the rock to the palaces and gardens of the Mohamed Ali dynasty: the district’s landmarks between Sidi Gaber and El Raml.

A journey through time On the map

8 landmarks4 eras

All qisms8
Sidi Gaber5
Raml I3

All kinds
Museums2
Arts & culture1

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The Raml suburbs

1850–1952

Sidi Gaber’s station was built in 1854 and the Antoniadis Gardens laid out in 1860, and under Muhammad Ali’s dynasty the elite vied to build their palaces in Zizinia.

Arts & culture · Raml IEl Safa Palace1887, named El Safa in 1927A palace on a hill in Zizinia, built by Count Stefan Zizinia in 1887 and named “El Safa” by Prince Mohamed Ali Tewfik in 1927; today it is a presidential palace, not open to visitors.

Emergency and hotline numbers
National government complaints line	16528
Alexandria Governorate operations room (from a landline)	114
Child helpline	16000
Police	122
Ambulance	123
Fire service	180
Gas emergency	129
Electricity faults	121