Museum · Egypt
Manial Palace Museum
قصر الأمير محمد علي بالمنيل
Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfik's walled palace complex on Rawda Island, mixing Mamluk, Ottoman, Persian and Moorish decoration amid gardens.
Where it is
30.0276, 31.2290
Why go
Built for Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfik between 1900 and 1929, the Manial complex is a set of separate buildings inside an outer wall rather than a single palace. Visitors move between a reception hall, clock tower, sabil, mosque, residence, throne hall, a golden hall and the prince's private museum, all set in an extensive garden. The decoration deliberately combines Mamluk, Ottoman, Persian, Syrian, Moroccan and Andalusian motifs. A hunting museum with mummified animals, added in 1963, occupies a corridor along the northern wall.
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