Top Things to Do in North Coast

The Rasheed National Museum

On the far side of Gomhoreya Square from the Nile, this new museum is located in a restored 18th-century...

German Memorial

This massive edifice to the Germans who lost their lives in the North African campaign stands between...

Biblioteca Alexandrina

This is one of those big, well-intentioned projects that nobody really thought through. It is, however,...

Italian Memorial

Though just 3km (1 3/4 miles) west of the German Memorial, the Italian Memorial is quite different: Its...

The Graeco-Roman Museum

This is a great museum, and with around 40,000 items in its collection, dating back as far as the 3rd...

Alamein Military Museum

This small museum, just up the road from the Commonwealth Cemetery, houses a collection of military equipment...

Cavafy Museum

This house of poet C. P. Cavafy has been charmingly reconstructed and offers a relaxing way to spend...

Commonwealth Cemetery

This is a somber, moving monument to the thousands of Allied troops who lost their lives in Al Alamein....

Kom el Dikka

Until archaeologists from the University of Warsaw began to excavate this site in the 1960s, it looked...

Qaitbey Fort

From almost any place along the Corniche, you can see a short, squat castle perched on the end of the...