Cairo, the city of magic and beauty, with its monuments, buildings and historical streets, attest to the eras of renaissance, development and construction that Egypt lived during a period in its history. In the Heliopolis district of Cairo, you can visit Baron Empain Palace. And it is the only palace in the world that the sun never sets.
Owner of the palace:
This palace was named "The Baron's Palace" after its owner, the Belgian millionaire Baron "Edward Empain", who came to Egypt from India at the end of the 8th century a few months after the opening of the Suez Canal, where Baron Empain built it in 1911 in the heart of Heliopolis in Cairo. , Specifically on Al-Orouba Street on the main road leading to Cairo International Airport.
The magic of Cairo attracts the Belgian millionaire:
Edward Empain's talents were numerous, and his activity was not limited to the economic and engineering destination only, as he loved to travel constantly, so he set out with
his countless sums of money to most countries of the world, where he flew to Mexico and from there to Brazil, and from South America to Africa, where he stayed a lot. From projects in the Congo and achieved enormous wealth, and from the heart of the brown continent he headed east to the country of magic and beauty "India" and the Belgian millionaire fell in love with the East. Empain loved Egypt a lot and made a fateful decision to stay in Egypt until his death, and wrote in his will to be buried in the soil of Egypt Even if he passed away outside. And he began searching for himself a place to live to be his "Baron's Palace", which became the only one of its kind in the world until now.
Baron Empain:
Archaeologists and historians were not only surprised by the design and decoration of the palace, but the Baron's choice of the location of the palace in the desert - at that time - was a strange and mysterious choice for which no explanation can be found until now.
Little by little, myths and legends about the palace began to be haunted by ghosts, and that the guards of the neighboring buildings saw lights and smoke coming out of the palace, to develop the stories and become a legend claiming that the baron was not happy in his life, and that he was nervous and suffering from many diseases, and the curse of the palace came after His death, so that no one else would inhabit it, as legend says.
Among the myths that the residents of Heliopolis have traded for decades are the existence of secret passages and tunnels under the palace, including a corridor linking it to the basilica in which Baron Empain is buried.
The death of the owner of the palace:
Baron Empain passed away on July 22, 1929 and since this date the palace has been in danger of being neglected for many years, as its gardens that were once singing were turned into ruins, and the palace became deserted and the efforts of its heirs were dispersed until the Egyptian government made a decision to include it in the tourism sector and the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, which started a process. Reconstruction and restoration in it in the hope of turning it into a museum or one of the Egyptian presidential palaces, and its heirs were compensated with alternative lands in the New Cairo area to establish investment projects on it, and since that time, the palace has only been opened for a few days and turned into a masterpiece
Our day tour to Baron Empain Palace in Cairo, or Baron Empain Palace Tour from Cairo Airport if you have a layover in Cairo, is a fantastic activity to try during Cairo day tours as you will get to see the beautiful construction of royalty for the Baron who built the Electric Railways Company of Cairo and Heliopolis Oases, which bought a large portion of the desert some distance from northeastern Cairo at a low price from the British occupation government. Baron Palace through Cairo trips is your way to get inside the mysteries of this incredible palace!
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