Al-Muizz Street

Why go

Named after al-Muizz li-Din Allah, the Fatimid caliph who first laid it out, this street links two surviving gates of the walled city: Bab al-Futuh in the north and Bab Zuwayla in the south. Walking its length passes buildings spanning the Fatimid era to the Muhammad Ali dynasty, among them mosques, madrasas, public fountains, a bathhouse and merchants’ houses. Shops, vendors and craft stores still trade between the monuments, so the street works as a living market as well as a continuous outdoor sequence of historic architecture.