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.

Squares & streets · Sidi GaberSidi Gaber Railway Station1854Built in 1854 as the first Alexandria terminus of the line to Cairo, about two miles east of the city, and replaced by a modern station in the 1970s.

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