Landmarks & Culture

Landmarks of El Gomrok District

From tombs cut into the rock to Qaitbay Citadel and the mosques of Bahari: the district’s landmarks across El Gomrok, El Manshiya and El Labban.

A journey through time On the map

8 landmarks4 eras

All qisms8
El Gomrok5
El Manshiya2
El Labban1

All kinds
Antiquities3
Museums1
Places of worship2
Squares & streets1
Arts & culture1

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Mohamed Ali’s Alexandria and after

1800–1952

Mohamed Ali began Ras El Tin Palace in 1834 and built an observatory on Kom El Nadura; the Anfoushi tombs were found in 1901; the marine institute beside the citadel was founded in 1918; and the Italian community built the monument to Khedive Ismail at El Manshiya in 1933.

Squares & streets · El ManshiyaThe Naval Unknown Soldier Memorial1933, the Unknown Soldier memorial from the 1960sA monument Alexandria’s Italian community built in 1933 to honour Khedive Ismail, turned in the 1960s into the memorial to the naval Unknown Soldier.

Emergency and hotline numbers
National government complaints line	16528
Alexandria Governorate operations room (from a landline)	114
Child helpline	16000
Police	122
Ambulance	123
Fire service	180
Gas emergency	129
Electricity faults	121