Downtown Cairo to be renovated as an open museum

Cairo governor Engineer Atef Abdel Hamid declared in a press statement the start of a new project to redevelop the stock area downtown Cairo and surroundings, transforming the area into an open museum.

The project plan aims to reconstruct buildings and facades, in order to restore the Khedive era (18th and 19th century) architectural style of downtown Cairo and to turn the area into an open museum.

23 buildings are included in the renovation plan, in addition to 12000 square meters of the surrounding pedestrian streets.