Park
Al-Azhar Park
10 Salah Salem St, El-Darb El-Ahmar, Al-Darb Al-Ahmar, Cairo Governorate 4294010
Landscaped hilltop park built over a five-century rubble mound, with lakes, gardens and skyline views of medieval Cairo.
This guide to Al-Azhar Park in Cairo starts with five centuries of the city's garbage piled against the old medieval walls, and the 1984 conference where the Aga Khan asked why Cairo had no park and decided the answer would be built on top of the trash. It follows the 1990s crews hauling away roughly a million and a half cubic meters of rubble to reach solid ground, and what that digging turned up along the way. Listen for what the excavators found buried beneath the mound before the gardens went in.
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