الأحد، 17 أغسطس 2014

Palace Baron Empain - Cairo

Palace Baron Empain, a unique architectural masterpiece of its kind on the grounds, it only palace in the world who miss him the sun throughout the day, was that the construction of the base concrete on ball Billy spin on wheels so that surrounds the palace including the (hourly) to see standing on his balcony all revolves around him and follows the sun in the rotation throughout the daylight hours.
Millionaire built by Belgian Baron Edouard Empain (September 20, 1852 - Jul 22 1929), which came from India to Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century, shortly after the opening of the Suez Canal,
Palace is located in the heart of Cairo's Heliopolis district, specifically in the street Arabism on the main road leading to Cairo International Airport and oversees the palace-dropped on the street Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jubair and Hassan Sadiq.

Returns the idea of ​​building a palace to Baron Empain presented to the Egyptian government's idea of ​​creating a neighborhood in the desert east of Cairo and chose his name (Heliopolis) any city of the sun and bought Baron acre Pound and the only one, where the area was lacking in facilities, transportation, and services, and so can the Baron attract people to Dahith new thought in the creation of Metro is still working until now, and take the name of the city Metro Heliopolis as commissioned architect Belgian Andre Brchillo who was working at the time with the Paris Metro creates a metro line connecting the neighborhood or the new city, Cairo, has also begun to establish homes Belgian-style classic addition to large tracts include magnificent gardens, and built hotels is a huge ancient Heliopolis hotel, which included a recent presidential palaces in Egypt.
Decided Baron stay Palace, was a palace legendary, and is designed so as not to lose sight of the sun, where the intervention of all Hgrath and Rdhath, one of the most luxurious palaces in Egypt at all, and includes room Baron palace, panel embodies how the era of the grape to convert to alcohol, then drink it according to tradition, Romania the sequence of wine in the headers, which is caused by alcohol in the capital Harbhe.
Was inspired by the Temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia [2] and the Hindu temples of Orissa. Designed by French architect Alexandre Marcel Alexandre Marcel and ornament George Louis Claude Georges Louis Claude, construction was completed in 1911.

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