Cairo Tower / The Iconic Skyline Jewel Of Egypt
Cairo Tower (sometimes called: "Island Tower") is a tower located in the Egyptian capital Cairo, built between 1956 and 1961 of reinforced concrete on the design of the Egyptian lotus flower, designed by engineer Noam Shabib, located in the heart of Cairo on Zamalek island in the Nile River.
It reaches a height of 187 meters and is about 43 meters higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza. On the top of the Cairo Tower, there is a tourist restaurant on a rotating platform that allows diners to see the sights of Cairo from all sides.
The tower is one of the most prominent landmarks of Cairo and consists of 16 floors and stands on a base of Aswani granite stones that were previously used by the ancient Egyptians in the construction of their temples and tombs, and the journey inside the Tower elevator to reach its end takes 45 seconds to see when you stand on top of a complete panorama of Cairo, the pyramids, the TV building, Sphinx, Nile, Salah el-Din Castle, Al-Azhar and on the 14th floor a restaurant.
Cairo Tower (sometimes called: "Island Tower") is a tower located in the Egyptian capital Cairo, built between 1956 and 1961 from reinforced concrete on the design of the Egyptian lotus flower, designed by engineer Noam Shabib, located in the heart of Cairo on Zamalek island in the Nile River.
It reaches a height of 187 meters and is about 43 meters higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza. On top of the Cairo Tower, there is a tourist restaurant on a rotating platform that allows diners to see the sights of Cairo from all sides.
The tower is one of the most prominent landmarks of Cairo and consists of 16 floors and stands on a base of Aswani granite stones that were previously used by the ancient Egyptians in the construction of their temples and tombs, and the journey inside the Tower elevator to reach its end takes 45 seconds to see when you stand on top of a complete panorama of Cairo, the pyramids, the TV building, the Sphinx, the Nile, Salah al-Din Castle, Al-Azhar and on the 14th floor restaurants.
The Cairo Tower was renovated in a work that lasted about two years from 2006 to 2008 by the Egyptian Arab Contractors Company. the restoration and repair process cost about 15 million pounds. it includes the treatment and restoration of the tower's concrete, the addition of 3 floors of metal structures below the tower, and another floor directly above the main entrance, the construction of an emergency staircase and an elevator for visitors, the development of the tower entrance, as well as finishing the tower facades and adding new external lighting.
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