A wedding-cake palace of turrets and statues marooned at the meeting of eight streets.
Built in 1897 by the merchant Habib Sakakini Pasha, this exuberant Rococo palace bristles with turrets, balconies, and more than three hundred busts and statues. Set at the hub of eight radiating streets in the Daher district, it remains one of Cairo's most flamboyant belle-epoque landmarks.
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