Our Guide will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo by a private air-conditioned car to start your tour in Heliopolis city. Pay a visit Baron Empain Palace, the most famous landmark of Heliopolis, the city of the sun, to find out the history of this great city and enjoy stories associated with this palace and its miscellaneous decorations. This palace consists of four floors, as well as its garden. After that, go ahead to The Basilica Church where Baron Edward Empain willed to be buried.

Move ahead to the most famous fortress in Islamic Cairo, the Citadel of Saladin, built by Salah-El-Din Al-Ayoubi in the 12th Century to fortify Cairo against the Crusaders' attacks. This citadel was the seat of the rule for 700 years. On the highest point inside the courtyard of the Citadel of Saladin, there is one of the most famous landmarks in Egypt, the Mosque of Muhammad Ali or Alabaster Mosque, designed in Turkish style by the Turkish architect Yousif Boushnaq who came especially from Istanbul to build this great mosque. This mosque distinguishes its beautiful decorations on its walls, its remarkable domes, and minarets.