Palace of Baron Empain

Palace of Baron Empain, unique architectural masterpiece built by Belgian millionaire Baron Edouard Empain (20 September 1852 - 22 July 1929), who came to Egypt from India at the end of Nineteenth century shortly after the opening of the Suez Canal,

The Palace is located in the heart of the new Egypt Cairo, specifically in uruba Street on the main road leading to the International Airport and oversees the Palace also on Rue Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jubayr and Hassan Sadiq.

• The idea of building

The idea of building the Palace returns to Baron Empain who introduced the idea of creating a Government of Egypt alive in the desert east of Cairo and chose his name (Heliopolis ) Sun City and bought only one pound per acre Baron, since the region lacked facilities and transportation services, And so new its outskirts attract people to Baron thought create the Metro is still working so far and took the name City Metro new Egypt as the Belgian engineer takes Andre bershlo who was working at that time with the Paris Metro company create a metro line connecting the neighborhood or The new city of Cairo, and began to establish a Belgian-style houses classic plus large areas includes wonderful gardens, built a huge hotel is an old hotel Heliopolis which included recently to presidential palaces in Egypt.

The Baron decided to establish the legendary Palace Palace, designed so that no missed Sun as all its closets and lobbies, a plush palaces in Egypt at all, with the Baron's room in the Palace, reflected how the era of grapes into alcohol, then drink it by the Romanian traditions and follow wine in Heads, the booze in the heads of its drinkers.
The idea of building the Palace.