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
Antiquities1
Places of worship1
Squares & streets1
Parks & gardens2

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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.

Parks & gardens · Sidi GaberAntoniadis Palace and Gardens1860, the gardens; given to the municipality in 1918Gardens laid out by the French artist Paul Richard in 1860 after the gardens of Versailles, and a palace that John Antoniadis’s son gave, with the gardens, to the Alexandria municipality in 1918.

More places in the district

Places the district has published, not yet dated on the timeline.

Alexandria ZooParks & gardens · Sidi Gaber

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