Palace Baron Empain


Baron Empain Palace, an ancient palace a stunning beauty and is located in the heart of Heliopolis, Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, in a street Arabism specifically on the main road to Cairo International Airport and oversees the palace on the street Arabism and Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jabir Hassan Sadiq · designed by French architect Alexandre Marcel Marcel Alexander (in 1860 - 1928) and decorated by Georges-Louis Claude Louis Claude George (1879 - 1963) and was completed in 1911

Built by millionaire Belgian Baron Edouard Empain (September 20 1852 - July 22 1929),
who came to Egypt from India at the end of the nineteenth century, shortly after the opening of the Suez Canal, where he remained in Egypt and chose a dessert place (at the time) to build his palace in the center of suburb of Heliopolis, which Onconha near the capital Cairo and Suez as well, his choice fell on the design engineer, a Frenchman, Marcel Alexander, who shows the design of the short adapt European models and the Indian engineering exhibition in Paris in 1905 where he was impressed by the Baron and was bought to be one first building decorated Desert of Egypt New in 1911, bringing together between the two methods in the design of architects, one from the Palace of the Renaissance, especially for foreign statues and the wall of the palace, but the palace itself belonged to the Cambodian-style dome long sweetened statues of Buddha, bringing the Marble Palace from Italy, crystal from Czechoslovakia, and occupies the palace and extensive gardens A 12,500 square meters and finished construction of the palace of the world in 1911. A unique architectural masterpiece of its kind on the grounds that the only palace in the world that escapes him in the sun all day, was that the construction of the concrete base on Billy Bearings spin on the wheels so that it surrounds the palace including (every hour) to see standing in the balcony of what is going on around him and followed the sun in rotation throughout the daylight hours. Provided the palace homeworkers and Entourages and began the ceremonies and the hills and to ensure Artadh community leaders who were the focus of his concerts until the death of Baron in Belgium, in 1929 of cancer.

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  1. Parag, on March 24, 2010 at 12:22 PM said:

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  2. BARON EMPAIN, on November 29, 2018 at 6:06 PM said:

    Nice article
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