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Montazah Palace was the summer residence of Egypt's former royal family. It was built on an elevation that overlooks one of the most attractive beaches of Alexandria. The palace comprises a number of buildings.

The poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) was born to Greek parents but spent most of his life in Alexandria. This small museum is housed in the flat where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

Alexandria National Museum offers a glimpse of the city’s colorful past. The museum is set in an elegant white mansion on the corner of Tahrir Street. The building itself is 83 years old.

Installed at Fatma Al Zahraa Palace in Zizenia, this museum is a unique architectural masterpiece. Its rooms contain many rare paintings, ornaments and rare statues as well as a priceless jewel collection belonging to Mohamed Ali dynasty.

The Attarine souk is a maize of little streets, too narrow for cars to fit, that houses literally hundreds of little antique shops and boutiques. It's called the Zinqat as-Sittat market (which literally translates to 'the women's squeeze').

The new Bibliotheca Alexandria is striking in its architecture and also contains a Planetarium and Science Museum. The main library is encased in a giant cylindrical building at the far northern end of the corniche.

This is a granite pillar, over 25 meters high, and built amidst the ruins of the Serapium in 297 A.D., in honor of Emperor Diocletian.