Cairo Tower - details and images

Cairo Tower is a concrete television tower located in Zamalek district on Gezira Island in the Nile River. The tower is also 187 meters, 47 meters higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Tower is ranked fourth among the highest towers in the world and offers visitors the best view of the city.

Cairo Tower was built in perioada1956-1961, and was designed by Egyptian architect Chebib Naoum, partially open to the top of the tower imitates a lotus flower. Above is a circular observation deck and revolving restaurant with views over Cairo. A rotation of the restaurant takes about 70 minutes. The restaurant menu is very well known and highly appreciated and various dignitaries who have visited (there is also a guest book where the majority of officials have signed).

The best time to visit the tower is at night or at dusk, when the whole city is like a game of light and in the west can see the pyramids and the desert which marks the edge of town. At night he is dressed as one with LED lighting in different colors and light games. The tower is open between the hours of 9-1 summer and winter between 8-12 at night.



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