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Heliopolis is the Latinised form of the Greek name Hēlioúpolis (Ἡλιούπολις), meaning "City of the Sun". Helios, the personified and deified form of the sun, was identified by the Greeks with the native Egyptian gods Ra and Atum, whose principal cult was located in the city. Its native name was iwnw ("The Pillars"), whose exact ...
The Baron Empain Palace (Arabic: قصر البارون إمبان, "Qasr el Baron Emban"), also known as Le Palais Hindou (lit. 'The Hindu Palace'), is a distinctive and historic mansion in Heliopolis, a suburb northeast of central Cairo, Egypt. [1][2] It was built in 1905 for Édouard Empain, Baron Empain, a Belgian businessman and ...
1911. Completed. 1913. Direction of façade. Southwest. Website. www .labasilique .org. Our Lady of Heliopolis Co-Cathedral, [1] also known as the Latin Cathedral of Our Lady of Heliopolis, or the Basilica of the Holy Virgin, [2] is a Roman Catholic church building, located on Al-Ahram Square in the Heliopolis neighbourhood of Cairo, Egypt. [3]
The Benben stone, named after the mound, was a sacred stone in the temple of Ra at Heliopolis (Egyptian: Annu or Iunu). It was the location on which the first rays of the sun fell. It is thought to have been the prototype for later obelisks, and the capstones of the great pyramids were based on its design. The capstone (the tip of the pyramid ...
Heliopolis style is an early 20th-century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company , responsible for planning and developing the new suburb, created the new style to implement an exclusive distinctiveness to the design of its buildings.
Heliopolis, Cairo. Heliopolis (Egyptian Arabic: مصر الجديدة, Maṣr el-Gedīda, [ˈmɑsˤɾ el ɡɪˈdiːdæ, -eɡ-], lit. "New Egypt") was an early 20th century suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo and is administratively divided into the districts of Masr El Gedida and El Nozha in the Eastern Area.
A bistro or bistrot (/ ˈ b iː s t r oʊ /), in its original Parisian form, is a small restaurant serving moderately priced, simple meals in a modest setting. The term has also become used by more pretentious restaurants.
Crêpes, onion soup, and escargots are some of the best-known French dishes around the world, and they're the ones I often see visitors order in Paris. Those meals are delicious, but they aren't ...